Black & African American Literature

Fiction

Anthology of Stories Set in New York City Explores the Human Experience

The best stories are those that tap into what it intrinsically means to be human. By doing so, we’re connected not only with the characters within said stories but also with our fellow readers experiencing their journeys. In his second collection, Witness (FSG), Jamel Brinkley captures this phenomenon across ten…

Darryl OliverAugust 7, 2023

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead Returns With Huge Heists and Shakedowns in “Harlem Shuffle”

Colson Whitehead embarks on a double-sided exploration of 1960s Harlem in his latest work of fiction, Harlem Shuffle (Doubleday). For a Black man trying to survive and keep his furniture business afloat in tumultuous times, Ray Carney finds that street smarts are just as important as his college degree. Balancing…

Michael FerrySeptember 14, 2021

Fiction

African Village Faces Corporate Greed in Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were”

"A masterful novel by a spellbinding writer." — David Ebershoff, bestselling author of The Danish Girl —∞— How Beautiful We Were (Random House) by Imbolo Mbue is a heartbreaking story of a fictitious African village in the 1980s where children are getting sick and dying due to toxic waste. The…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 23, 2021

Fiction Recommended

Novel Explores Surviving the Hood Like a Game of Cards

As Fat Bread, a kid trying to navigate the rough streets of inner-city Detroit in the 1980s, explores one of the many hustles presented to him, Bram, a slick operator and “businessman,” invites him for a game of chess. Asked to make the first move of a game he doesn’t…

Jim AlkonNovember 17, 2022

Black & African American Literature

Pulitzer Prize Winner Colson Whitehead Returns With Huge Heists and Shakedowns in “Harlem Shuffle”

African Village Faces Corporate Greed in Imbolo Mbue’s “How Beautiful We Were”

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