chimamanda adichie has a wonderful piece in newsweek, reposted in the daily beast, that asks whether the jury would have believed dominique strauss-kahn or his alleged victim, guinean immigrant nafissatou diallo. On television, she was familiar: the skin tone that [...]
Sometime ago in May, at a house party in a friend’s house – an artist, I found myself seated around a table with a few elderly women who grew up in Mississippi in the 60s. One of them is my [...]
Author – Jacqueline Maduneme Publisher/ Date – Pointed Arrows (May 2011) Book Title – Ada’s Daughter (356 pages) Genre – Memoir (Dysfunctional Families) Reviewer – Myne Whitman Source – Review Copy from Author The memoir is a difficult literary [...]
Peeping Dom ‘Wiping the unbelieving suds from his eyes, Dominique peeped once more through the judas hole in the bathroom door. He saw the panty-hosed assassin sent by Nicolas lean forward to pull out a gold-plated .22 derringer pistol from [...]
the guardian asked zadie smith, one of a handful of contemporary writers, to comment on her rules for writing. since i found zadie’s list to be depressing, pessimistic, and utterly without joy, i wrote my own. keep in mind that i am [...]
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