Victor LaValle, the author of Lone Women (One World, 2023), has written a Black speculative fiction novel that provides the perspective of “lone women” in Montana,...
The Journey of Ahmed Abdullah in the Sun Ra Arkestra In this lengthy and captivating memoir, A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra...
Book Review By Brenda Greene“The Cherokee Rose” By Tiya Miles275 pp. Random House The prologue for Tiya Miles’s debut novel, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of...
Although Kevin Powell’s poetry collection, Grocery Shopping with My Mother: Poems, (Soft Skull, 2022), begins and ends with a tribute to his mother, the collection is...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New YorkerEdited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick828 pp. Harper Collins (Harper Collins, 2021), edited by Jelani Cobb...