Obasan by Joy Kogawa
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
Tag: race
fledging by Octavia E. Butler
vampires yes please and too long sentences
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
a boxset of ten powerful chapbooks
Lift Every Voice, edited by Christine Taylor
little review of a strong anthology
Native Son by Richard Wright
surprisingly good protest novel; thoughts on UK election result
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
still working too much; brief notes on celibacy as sexual practice
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
Cruising by Alex Espinoza
Are you done with the sofa, floor, kitchen table, baby?
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I read another great, serious, time travel novel
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
