Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
Tag: race
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
The Africa In My House by Andrea Mbarushimana
A British woman considers the life of her Rwandan husband and his country.
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
The Fight by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer writes energetically and racistly about boxing
The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron
The ‘Godfather of Rap’ offers a rose-tinted memoir.
On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham
Very Colonial travel writing from author of The Painted Veil
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Can I write about writing about race without discussing race? No.
R u a gay or a racist???
A bald head looks like the tip of an erect penis without the external urethral meatus.
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
A lot of people don’t read poetry. A lot of people who read a lot of books, don’t read poetry. AContinue Reading
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a big, serious novel all about big, serious things. It is intelligent, articulate, humaneContinue Reading
Filth by Irvine Welsh
Recently I’ve been very much enjoying Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong*’s Channel 4 police drama, Babylon. This under-watched TV showContinue Reading
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Just before Christmas an email was circulated round the students of my university pointing us in the direction of aContinue Reading
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
I haven’t changed my opinion halfway through a novel so drastically in ages. Which was a good thing, because theContinue Reading
Hip-Scott: Born To Rap
After reading an article during the day on Thursday that claimed that all middle class white boys rapping were beingContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 