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Albert Murray Dies at 97 | NYTimes.com 20 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Albert Murray, an essayist, critic and novelist who influenced the national discussion about race by challenging black separatism, insisting that the black experience was essential to American culture...
Nalo Hopkinson Eerily Foresaw 2013 Detroit | The Atlantic 16 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
Speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson’s award-winning dystopian novel Brown Girl in the Ring takes place in a walled-off inner city filled with crime, drug addiction, and poverty, where the causes...
Chinyere Evelyn Uku with Thomas Sayers Ellis 12 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chinyere Evel...
Issue 29 9 Aug 2013 | 02:42 pm
Interviews William Melvin Kelley by Steve Kemme Lorna Goodison by Clarence V. Reynolds Ayana Mathis by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn Poems Betty Boop by Angel Nafis Ghazal for My Sister by Angel Nafis Reba at...
Americanah: Review 5 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Alfred A. Knopf Review by Colleen Lutz Clemens It’s been four years since the 2009 publication of Chimamanda Adichie’s stunning short story collection The Things...
The Roving Tree: Review 30 Jul 2013 | 02:00 am
The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave Open Lens/Akashic Books Review by Danielle A. Jackson The Roving Tree, the ethereal, sprawling debut novel by Haitian-born New York writer and educator Elsie Augusta...
Daughters Who Walk This Path: Review 22 Jul 2013 | 10:07 pm
Daughters Who Walk This Path by Yejide Kilanko Pintail, Penguin Group USA Review by Leigh Cuen In her debut novel, Nigerian-born Yejide Kilanko conjures a family of women growing up and becoming mothe...
What We Ask of Flesh: Review 16 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
What We Ask of Flesh by Remica L. Bingham Etruscan Press Review by Nicole Sealey Matthew 26:41 reads, “the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” This may well be true, but let’s not mistak...
Edward Kelsey Moore: Interview 4 Jul 2013 | 09:47 pm
Edward Kelsey Moore Interview by Clarence V. Reynolds with Linda A. Duggins Reflected in the best writing is a resonance of humanity—which resides in all of us—that eventually transpires and stays wit...
100 years Aime Cesaire | New Europe 11 Jun 2013 | 06:36 am
100 years Aime Cesaire by Passa Porta A tribute to Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the great poet, playwright, essayist and politician from Martinique, on his 100th birthday. How can Césaire still inspire u...
