Category Archives: review
Review of D. Watkins We Speak for Ourselves
Always on the look out for writing that will get my students excited about reading I picked up a copy of journalist and social commentator extraordinaire, D. Watkins’ We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America (2019) for … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, environment, health, review, slavery, Writer
Tagged Baltimore, D. Watkins, hip hop, journalism, journalist, Lucky Dube, memoir, Nipsey Hussle, Rap, South Africa, We Speak for Ourselves
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Review of Victor Lavalle’s The Changeling
I’ll admit, I approached Victor Lavalle’s The Changeling (2018) with a healthy amount of trepidation. While I love science and speculative fiction, I’m not big on horror. It’s why, although I am deeply curious about them both, I have yet to … Continue reading
Wondering: Has Peele read Butler?
Let me state up front, just so we’re clear, I loooove Octavia Butler. She seems to make her way into my consciousness at least once a day, whether it’s through what I’m reading or a podcast I’m listening to, or just … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, literature, review, slavery, Speculative Fiction, Writer
Tagged Easy Rawlins, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Octavia Butler, science fiction, the sunken place, Us, Walter Mosley, Wild Seed
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Review of The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel
My first encounter with Zimbabwean writer and certified podiatrist Tendai Huchu was a few years ago when I found his short story “The Sale” in AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (2012), edited by the incomparable Nnedi Okorafor. Continue reading
Posted in Africa, literature, review, Writer
Tagged Africa, creative writing, literature, review, Tendai Huchu
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