As part of her latest push to get the literary community talking seriously about diversity, our inimitable essays editor Roxane Gay has a piece up at the Nation about some of the thrilling, confounding, challenging books by writers of color out right now.
In it, she interrogates the very notion of a “writer of color” and what purpose that label has. “Are these the novels of a writer or a black woman writer?” she asks of her own work. “Does it matter?”
