
The Enigma of Nonarrival
Though Roy Heath spent most of his life in Britain, he returned again and again in his fiction to Guyana.
The Murderer
by Roy Heath
July 21, 2022 issue
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Colin Grant’s latest book, I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be, will be published in January. He is the director of WritersMosaic, a platform for new writing and an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund. (July 2022)
The Enigma of Nonarrival
Though Roy Heath spent most of his life in Britain, he returned again and again in his fiction to Guyana.
The Murderer
by Roy Heath
July 21, 2022 issue
A Country Out of Control
In Wole Soyinka’s laceratingly satirical new novel, Nigeria has lost its way and is inured to corruption and violence.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
by Wole Soyinka
April 7, 2022 issue
Sins of the Fathers
In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball’s white supremacist great-great-grandfather becomes a case study in the enduring legacy of slavery.
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by Edward Ball
November 18, 2021 issue
Harlem on the Mediterranean
Claude McKay’s lost novel recounts the thrills and disappointments of lives spent along the Marseille harbor.
Romance in Marseille
by Claude McKay, edited and with an introduction by Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell
November 5, 2020 issue
Chanting Down Babylon
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
by Marcia Douglas
October 10, 2019 issue
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