Reconstructing Autobiography in the Borderlands: Essay
Reconstructing Autobiography in the Borderlands: Anzaldua at the Liminal Edges of Identity by Sushma Joshi Originally published in Mosaic #10, June 2001 Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands: La Frontera is a book that transcends all boundaries of genre and style. A text that includes poetry side by side with fragments of mainstream history, and intermixes them with…
New from Edwidge Danticat
‘Claire of the Sea Light’ by Edwidge Danticat By Laura Collins-Hughes Boston Globe
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…
M.G. Vassanji: Interview
by Clarence Reynolds It comes as no surprise that when M.G. Vassanji’s book won a regional Commonwealth Writer’s Prize the honor was an auspicious beginning for the first-time novelist. In 1994, his novel The Book of Secrets received the inaugural Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s prestigious literary award, and further solidified Vassanji as an important literary…
