Monthly Archives: October 2021

Reading Well: How Long ‘Til Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin

How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (2018) collects short stories from N.K. Jemisin‘s career dating back roughly twenty years, meaning they stretch before she was one of the faces of contemporary imaginative fiction. It’s a fun collection to read, perhaps … Continue reading

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Reading Well: The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

With The Book of Night Women (2009), we’ve now gone through Marlon James‘ entire corpus (see John Crow’s Devil, A Brief History of Seven Killings, and Black Leopard, Red Wolf). The Book of Night Women is the most explicit, direct, … Continue reading

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