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‘We Refuse’ is a searing history of resistance that focuses on Black joy

NONFICTION: Drawing on historical and personal resources, Kellie Carter Jackson points toward healing.
June 5, 2024
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Novelist gets the little stuff right but not the big stuff in ‘Come and Get It’

FICTION: Kiley Reid follows up “Such a Fun Age” with another comic novel about race and privilege.
January 24, 2024
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Artful memoir 'How to Say Babylon' examines Black freedom and personal growth

NONFICTION: Poet Safiya Sinclair's unorthodox book goes beyond her life story to take on issues of race and the legacy of colonialism.
October 11, 2023
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Review: Trauma and abuse pile up in painful, meaningful novel 'Coleman Hill'

FICTION: Kim Coleman Foote draws on her family (note the title) in story of pain passed down through generations.
August 29, 2023
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Review: 'Black and Female,' by Tsitsi Dangarembga

NONFICTION: Slim but incisive, this collection of graceful essays explores the struggle to be Black and female in a world of toxic patriarchy.
January 20, 2023
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Review: 'Stories From the Tenants Downstairs,' by Sidik Fofana

FICTION: Eight linked stories about resourceful neighbors in a Harlem apartment building.
August 12, 2022
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Review: 'The Parted Earth,' by Anjali Enjeti

FICTION: This luminous multigenerational story follows people whose lives are ripped in two by the Partition of India.
June 18, 2021
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Review: "How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House," by Cherie Jones

FICTION: The story of a thief and his pregnant girlfriend is laced with violence.
February 5, 2021
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