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.

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.
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.
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.
“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.”
Everyone expects us to fail, and to succeed is to be the exception. The space between renders us unremarkable.
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.
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.
Black Boy Out of Time is an eloquent and enlightening testament to the ways in which Black authors recraft genre categories that are not truly interested in telling our stories.
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.
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.