“The Magic of Apricot,” by Fady Joudah
The magic of apricot may well keep us alive
a little while longer than unnecessary
A Cage Over Your Heart: An Interview with Lillian Li
“There’s great opportunity for comedy when a character acts out of hubris or spite because they practically write the script for their own downfall. A part of us enjoys seeing the other shoe drop.”
The Version of Themselves They’ve Been Told: An Interview with Danielle Lazarin
“Being alone with our thoughts and feelings is an act of self-possession. In the book, I definitely was exploring the idea that women can find strength in silence, particularly as a refusal to engage with what doesn’t serve them.”
The Persistence of Stars: An Interview with Toussaint St. Negritude
“People didn’t want Haitians teaching liberation to the rest of the world. All of those blockades from first-world countries left Haiti without infrastructure, without tools, without hospitals and schools. Here’s your freedom, but you’re on your own. Learning about that history was how I was introduced to the Negritude Poets.”
“Recordable,” by Nkosi Nkululeko
I was admitted into a hospital only for
the death of a tooth. There are negatives
of graveyards, albums of black rivers.