In the past two years, African literature has undergone a renaissance of attention. Articles in the New York Times and The Guardian have noted the growing number of African literary stars; Continue reading
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Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” – The New Yorker
by Teju Cole
Then the bus began driving into clouds, and between one cloud and the next we caught glimpses of the town below. It was suppertime and the town was a constellation of yellow points. Continue reading
Best Books of 2011
NONFICTION
Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11
By Caryl Phillips
The New Press
In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written, Continue reading
Teju Cole at Greenlight Bookstore
February, 24, 2011 @Greenlight Bookstore Bklyn NYC -Teju Cole, author of the critically received “Open City” read before an audience of numerous friends and many new fans.
“In other words, it is an ongoing reverie in the tradition of W.G. Sebald or Nicholson Baker, but with the welcome interruptions of the friends Continue reading