Chinyere Evelyn Uku with Thomas Sayers Ellis
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 Evelyn Uku, an African woman from Nigeria who has albinism. On the release of the paperback edition of Skin, Inc., Ellis conducted an interview with Uku about…
Mosaic 29
Fall/Winter 2013 Interviews William Melvin Kelley by Steve Kemme Lorna Goodison by Clarence V. Reynolds Ayana Mathis by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
Americanah: Review
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 Around Your Neck.
The Roving Tree: Review
The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave Open Lens/Akashic Books Review by Danielle A. Jackson The Roving Tree, the ethereal, sprawling debut novel
What We Ask of Flesh: Review
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.”
Thinking of Assata | The Liberator Magazine
Thinking of Assata by Laura Wise Guest Contributor The Liberator Magazine
William Demby: Interview
William Demby, Author of Experimental Novels, Dies at 90 –NYT William Demby: A Writer’s Life by Steve Kemme Mosaic #20 October 2007 As novelist William Demby left the podium on the stage at the Cleveland Playhouse after addressing a nearly full auditorium, the audience showered him with an enthusiastic ovation. The outpouring of admiration was both…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new novel | Telegraph UK
The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, Americanah, is a story of romance, race and the politics of hair
Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart | NYT
On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her astounding new book, “Sugar in the Blood.”
Mosaic #29 Lesson Plan
Lorna Goodison’s By Love Possessed is a collection of short stories that explore Jamaican life. These lesson plans can be used to engage younger readers across skills levels,
