In a post-covid world, dating apps are widely regarded as the main avenue for single people to find romantic partners. Everyone, it seems, is on the apps — but I hate them.
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My Darling from the Lions: A Critical Reading
Dark, sensual, whimsical, and razor-sharp, My Darling from the Lions is a remarkable collection with plenty to say and the gift of saying it in a fresh way.
“I define justice as something we give ourselves”: A conversation with Leila Mottley
Leila Mottley bounces into the hotel waiting room to meet me. I waste no time with my questions on Nightcrawling, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022, making this twenty-year-old the youngest author ever to have been nominated.
“She wrote exactly how it was to live, love, and be in endz”: A conversation with Lemara Lindsay-Prince
“For so many of us Black Brits, the anonymous writer of Keisha The Sket—Jade LB—is as fundamental to the canon as Shakespeare or Dickens.”
A rapid-fire Q&A with Abi Daré
In her latest conversation with her favourite author, literary influencer Hena J. Bryan (some know her as Bookish Babe) asks the questions we’ve all been wanting answered.
Finding Freedom in Fallibility with Raven Leilani
Everyone expects us to fail, and to succeed is to be the exception. The space between renders us unremarkable.
Grown is a map for the next generation
You may laugh, you may tear up a little, and you just might remember long-forgotten lessons from your younger self.
“I hope Black girls leave the book feeling that alrightness”: A conversation with Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping into Your Power speaks directly to Black girls, and women, showing us that anything is possible and we are 'alright'.
Black Moses is a damning portrait of Congo-Brazzaville
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, this is a cynical coming-of-age story that zeroes in on corruption in 70s and 80s Congo-Brazzaville.
This debut is a breathtaking love letter to diaspora
Bad Love has a somewhat misleading title. Though it is about how we hurt and are hurt in love, it is ultimately about the resilience of love across space and time.
Parsing Freedom: A Review of Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie
Set in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, this is a book for the sisters who are tired of being strong, for the sisters who have no interest in conditional humanity.
Open Water: An ethereal meditation on Black love and art
People like to say that love sees no colour, that love is blind. True as that may be, it is also true that love is about seeing.