‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana | Books

‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana | Books

Each December, hundreds of thousands of diaspora Nigerians and Ghanaians travel to their ancestral home countries. For many, the draw is the end-of-year party season – better known as “Detty December”, a... Read more »
Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season

Reading “King Lear” During Hurricane Season

As Hurricane Milton barrelled toward Florida last month, I taught a three-hour Zoom class and tried not to refresh my phone for updates. I grew up in Florida, and my parents, along... Read more »
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera review – a Mexican hero in exile | Fiction

Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera review – a Mexican hero in exile | Fiction

Yuri Herrera’s evocative novella, crisply translated by Lisa Dillman, follows the real-life fortunes of Benito Juárez in the cultural melange of 1853 New Orleans. The former governor of Oaxaca was to become... Read more »
The Women’s Midlife-Crisis Novel Enters the Season of the Witch

The Women’s Midlife-Crisis Novel Enters the Season of the Witch

What does a woman in midlife want? The opening scene of Susan Minot’s new novel, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” hazards an answer. Ivy—a writer, early fifties, divorced, devoted mother of a young... Read more »
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