jamaica kincaid
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Honoring Street-Level New Orleans: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore
Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson discusses her new book, ON FREEDOM: FOUR SONGS OF CARE AND CONSTRAINT.
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What to Read When You Need to Get to Spring
Emily Franklin shares a reading list to celebrate TELL ME HOW YOU GOT HERE.
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The Discourse of Undocumentedness: Talking with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio discusses her first book, THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS.
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Letting Pleasure Lead: A Conversation with Kyle McCarthy
Kyle McCarthy discusses her debut novel, EVERYONE KNOWS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.
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What to Read When You Want to Run Away from Your Life
Alden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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In the Wake of His Damage
To be named, and yet not named. Something broke in me when I read his synopsis of us, as if I had been summarily dismissed after twenty long years.
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What to Read When They Yell “Go Home!”
A list from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan to celebrate the release of the forthcoming anthology Go Home!.
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A “Girl” and Her Mother
At The Millions, Naa Baako Ako-Adjei discusses reading Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” through the lens of her relationship with her own mother growing up, and her new understanding of the story fifteen years later: In my rereading of “Girl,” I also…
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Antigua through the Eyes of Jamaica Kincaid
Antiguan-American novelist Jamaica Kincaid has often made the island a centerpiece of her writing. New York Times travel editor Monica Drake recounts visiting Antigua alongside Kincaid’s words—an alternative to the dominant, colonialist narrative around the island: The tension that we’d…