Category: Book Reviews

In Between Lives: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Tender Study of Identity and Belonging

The Bengali-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri has made a quiet career of charting the interior landscapes of displacement. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning

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In the swelling tide of African crime fiction, few writers have staked their claim as confidently as Kwei Quartey. With

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There are certain books you stumble on at just the right time when you’ve grown weary of polite optimism, when

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In Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman, the literary tradition of the aging patriarch; the Lear, the Scobie, the Stevens, gets a

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Taiye Selasi’s debut novel, Ghana Must Go, is a portrait of a family in disarray, meticulously stitched together with the

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What happens when home turns its back on you, and the place you run to barely lets you breathe? Bisa

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Grief is never punctual. It arrives late, sometimes decades after the wound has been made, and it lingers longer than

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More than sixty years after its publication, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains both a cultural touchstone and a

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In the luminous wreckage of Sabaa Tahir’s All My Rage, one finds not merely a coming-of-age tale, but a narrative

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