Dec 22
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, Read more
Gully
By Roger Bonair-Agaird
Cypher Press
Review by Adisa Vera Beatty
Trinidadian poet Roger Bonair Agard has crafted with brave sight and memory, poems that are at times achingly tender while others are potent tales intent on being told. Entitled Gully
the New Orleans Diaspora:
A Review and Reflection
by Fatima Shaik
Isabel Wilkerson’s first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Home: Social Essays
by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Akashic Books
Reviewed by Robert Fleming
Back in the day, LeRoi Jones was the spiritual and cultural beacon in the late 1960s and 1970s, using his word wizardry, acerbic wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and incendiary social and political vision to provide the necessary guidance Read more
Midnight: A Gangster Love Story
By Sister Souljah
Atria Books
Reviewed by Sidik Fofana
It was arguably the late ’90s when hip-hop started to stretch into grey areas of definition. At some point, the genre bubbled out of its breeches, no longer fitting into the symmetric four elements of emceeing, DJ’ing, graffiti writing, and B-boying. Read more
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