N.K. Jemisin is the first black writer to win Science Fiction & Fantasy's
most prestigious prize, the Hugo Award, for best novel. And Jemisin is the
first writer ever, in the history of the genre, to win the Hugo Award for
best novel three consecutive times. She has be...
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Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to
the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black
American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection
contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre...
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"Brutal, relentless, beautiful, fugal, Hurricane Season explores the violent
mythologies of one Mexican village and reveals how they touch the global
circuitry of capitalist greed. This is an inquiry into the sexual terrorism
and terror of broken men. This is a work o...
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“A Fortune for Your Disaster proves that, if you pay attention, Black
people have defined and still define themselves for themselves amid roses and
dandelions, cardinals and violets, the blues of music and police uniforms,
prayer and swagger, Kehinde Wiley paintings and...
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Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and
prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair. Through
heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10
years, she trains her relentless attention ...
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“Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a
quixotic search for the essence of melancholy—an enterprise that makes
Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a
levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts...
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“Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need
to wake up to it. Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices,
because she writes about essential things, in sentences so clipped and
glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”–J...
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"A superb evocation of a specific time and place—Berlin, 10 June
1927—that captures the intellectual ferment, the descent into decadence,
and rise of Nazism during the Weimar Republic. With historically precise
detailing and grimly gorgeous imagery, Lance Olsen portrays ...
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