Herman “Kofi” Bailey
BIOGRAPHY Herman “Kofi” Bailey 1931-1981 “Herman “Kofi” Bailey was born in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois and studied at Alabama State College, later
The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories by Amos Tutuola
Summary: Yoruba legend and culture were the source of much of Amos Tutuola’s writing and the stories collected here are no exception.
Francisco (a novel) by Alison Mills Newman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkQXV7uiYM “A lost masterpiece of American literature about the creative evolution of a young Black woman in California and her intense relationship
Tremor by Teju Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLstgifzAg An “extraordinary, ambitious” (The Times UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning
Roman Stories (Author, Jhumpa Lahiri) Todd Portnowitz (Translator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFF-kZm1vnA Summary: The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New
A Leopard Skin Hat by Anne Serre (Author) Mark Hutchinson (Translator)
Summary: A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle. A Leopard-Skin
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Summary: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian
The Pole by J.M. Coetzee
One of Vanity Fair’s “Best Books of the Fall” From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel
Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Iz2cj99EA Synopsis: Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity. This first collection by award-winning author John Yau,
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