Books
Danzy Senna
A profile of the “mulatto” novelist and her wry accounts of the mixed-race experience. (The New Yorker)Danzy Senna
Teju Cole’s “Tremor”
A review of the writer and photographer’s new novel about appropriation and the ethics of portrayal. (“Long Exposure,” The New Yorker)Teju Cole’s “Tremor”
Mohamed Mbougarr Sarr
A review of the Goncourt-winning novel “The Most Secret Memory of Men.” (“Absence Africaine,” The New Yorker)Mohamed Mbougarr Sarr
Maya Binyam’s “Hangman”
A review of the debut novel about an expatriate’s homecoming. (The New Yorker)Maya Binyam’s “Hangman”
Samuel R. Delany
A profile of the polymathic science fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, and theoretician of sex and queer identity. (“Galaxy Brain,” The New Yorker)Samuel R. Delany
Abdulrazak Gurnah
A review-essay about the Tanzanian Nobel laureate and his novel Afterlives.” (“Children of the Coast,” The New Yorker)Abdulrazak Gurnah
Ishmael Reed’s “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”
My introduction to the Dalkey Archive Press edition of Reed’s postmodern Western. (“The Yeehaw Papyrus,” The New York Review of Books)Ishmael Reed’s “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”