Book Report

August 27, 2021

“Perhaps, all I have tried doing in the collection is to track our proclivities for love and hate, intimacy and violence, solidarity and treachery,” the writer and academic said.

August 24, 2021

The famed writer’s novel, banned in Egypt and in several Arab countries, comes out in English.

August 24, 2021

The forthcoming book “traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance,” who “are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city’s dark energy.”

August 11, 2021

The novel—the first in his epic fantasy trilogy, Nameless Republic, based on 15th century West African empires—has been called “rich, wild, and occasionally dizzying.”

August 9, 2021

The Ghanaian and Armenian American writer’s debut has been praised for its lyricism.

August 9, 2021

The book has been described as “playful, frightening, shocking,” one that “will make you think, or make you laugh.”

August 9, 2021

With Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around The World, Retold, the Nigerian British writer reinvents centuries-old love stories from West Africa, South Asia, and ancient Greece.

August 5, 2021

The activist and writer’s second novel is “a profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we’re dealt.”

July 10, 2021

The Zimbabwean writer’s “blockbuster novel about the chaos of revolution, presented as an uncannily recognizable anthropomorphic allegory,” will arrive nine years after her Booker Prize-shortlisted debut We Need New Names.

June 14, 2021

The Somali-British writer’s third novel revisits a real-life wrongful murder conviction, 70 years ago in Cardiff.

May 3, 2021

The issue features Pwaangulongii Dauod, Bertille Mbarga, Géraldin Mpesse, Nelson Kamkuimo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, JK Anowe, and Lebohang Mojapelo.

April 27, 2021

“The truth is, I’ve been trying to write this novel for years,” the British Sudanese author tells us. “I wanted to write about the impact of cultural fascism on artists, painters and musicians.”

April 27, 2021

The text and photographic sequences are in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as the contemporary photographers Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover.

April 18, 2021

The short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells “pulls from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels.”

April 11, 2021

Edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon, the country’s first essay collection on contemporary Black feminisms features Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, and Yewande Omotosho.

April 11, 2021

The eighth book from the Nigerian British writer—author of The Icarus Girl; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours—has been called “a modern fairy tale.”

April 7, 2021

Thirteen years after his bestselling collection Say You’re One of Them, the Nigerian Catholic priest is back.

March 27, 2021

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up is the Booker Prize winner’s 9th book and first nonfiction.

March 22, 2021

The Way We Were tells the story of three women’s friendship. “The story of young Muslim women wasn’t being told outside a stereotypical narrative,” said the Egyptian poet.

March 2, 2021

“Everywhere else gets romanticised, what about Mombasa?” she said of her debut novel, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2021.

August 27, 2021

“Perhaps, all I have tried doing in the collection is to track our proclivities for love and hate, intimacy and violence, solidarity and treachery,” the writer and academic said.

August 24, 2021

The famed writer’s novel, banned in Egypt and in several Arab countries, comes out in English.

August 24, 2021

The forthcoming book “traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance,” who “are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city’s dark energy.”

August 11, 2021

The novel—the first in his epic fantasy trilogy, Nameless Republic, based on 15th century West African empires—has been called “rich, wild, and occasionally dizzying.”

August 9, 2021

The Ghanaian and Armenian American writer’s debut has been praised for its lyricism.

August 9, 2021

The book has been described as “playful, frightening, shocking,” one that “will make you think, or make you laugh.”

August 9, 2021

With Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around The World, Retold, the Nigerian British writer reinvents centuries-old love stories from West Africa, South Asia, and ancient Greece.

August 5, 2021

The activist and writer’s second novel is “a profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we’re dealt.”

July 10, 2021

The Zimbabwean writer’s “blockbuster novel about the chaos of revolution, presented as an uncannily recognizable anthropomorphic allegory,” will arrive nine years after her Booker Prize-shortlisted debut We Need New Names.

June 14, 2021

The Somali-British writer’s third novel revisits a real-life wrongful murder conviction, 70 years ago in Cardiff.

May 3, 2021

The issue features Pwaangulongii Dauod, Bertille Mbarga, Géraldin Mpesse, Nelson Kamkuimo, Kanyinsola Olorunnisola, JK Anowe, and Lebohang Mojapelo.

April 27, 2021

“The truth is, I’ve been trying to write this novel for years,” the British Sudanese author tells us. “I wanted to write about the impact of cultural fascism on artists, painters and musicians.”

April 27, 2021

The text and photographic sequences are in the still life tradition of Chardin, Cezanne, and the Dutch masters, as well as the contemporary photographers Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover.

April 18, 2021

The short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells “pulls from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels.”

April 11, 2021

Edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon, the country’s first essay collection on contemporary Black feminisms features Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, and Yewande Omotosho.

April 11, 2021

The eighth book from the Nigerian British writer—author of The Icarus Girl; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours—has been called “a modern fairy tale.”

April 7, 2021

Thirteen years after his bestselling collection Say You’re One of Them, the Nigerian Catholic priest is back.

March 27, 2021

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up is the Booker Prize winner’s 9th book and first nonfiction.

March 22, 2021

The Way We Were tells the story of three women’s friendship. “The story of young Muslim women wasn’t being told outside a stereotypical narrative,” said the Egyptian poet.

March 2, 2021

“Everywhere else gets romanticised, what about Mombasa?” she said of her debut novel, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2021.

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