The new book club has an exteriority about it. In an ever more global world where publishers seek to keep up with a trend-led, terminally online world, reading communities are no longer intimate.
Opinion
Why is there no Igbo translation of Things Fall Apart?
It’s hard to believe that out of 50 translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, not one is in the novel’s mother tongue: Igbo.
The publishing industry cannot continue to hide its anti-Blackness behind #BlackBestseller
Readers should be asking how these Black-authored titles would be different if they were also Black-edited, Black-designed, and Black-publicised.
All I want for Christmas is the death of lazy, “diversity” language
All too often we scroll across well-meaning publishing people using POC when they mean Black, racism when they mean anti-Blackness.