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Clint Smith’s “How the World is Passed”
A review of his book on the contemporary commemoration of slavery. (The New York Times Book Review)Clint Smith’s “How the World is Passed”
Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season”
A review of the novelist’s dark fairy tale exploration of femicide in Mexico. (The New York Times Book Review)Fernanda Melchor’s “Hurricane Season”
Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and Yoko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police”
A review-essay on two novels concerned with surveillance. (The New York Times Book Review)Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” and Yoko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police”
Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Slave Old Man”
A review of the Martinican writer’s novel about an elderly runaway. (The New York Times Book Review)Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Slave Old Man”
Gogol’s Fake News
An essay on the Russian novelist’s satire “Dead Souls” and its Trumpian resonances. (The New York Times Book Review)Gogol’s Fake News
Curse Narratives in Four African Novels
A review-essay on Jennifer Makumbi’s “Kintu,” Wayétu Moore’s “She Would Be King,” Leonara Miano’s “Season of the Shadow,” and Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Barefoot Woman,” which appeared on the cover of The New York Times Book Review.Curse Narratives in Four African Novels
John Keene’s “Counternarratives”
An essay on the writer’s speculative historical fiction as a queer counterpoint to the family saga. (The New York Times Book Review)John Keene’s “Counternarratives”