- A Novel of Infidelity in Dialogue with Elena Ferrante’s “The Days of Abandonment” (New Yorker)
- We Have Always Been at War with Mexico (Pacific Standard)
- The Strange Second Death of Chinua Achebe (New Inquiry)
- The Ongoing Revolution to Unite African Literature (Pacific Standard)
- Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature” (New Inquiry)
- After Before: El Libro de Carmen Boullosa (Full Stop)
- Is the Caine Prize for Emergent African Writing, or the Best African Writing? (Literary Hub)
- On Roberto Arlt’s The Seven Madmen (Full Stop)
- Bolaño’s Teeth: Valeria Luiselli and the Renaissance of Mexican Literature (LA Review of Books)
- Elena Ferrante: Master of the Epic Anti-Epic (Literary Hub)
- Helen Oyeyemi’s Locked Doors (New Republic)
- Has Imbolo Mbue Written the Great American Novel? (Literary Hub)
- In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now (Literary Hub)
- Hisham Matar’s The Return: Touching Bottom in an Ocean of Grief (OkayAfrica)
- Infidels is a Novel About a Gay Jihadi, and Also Not About That At All (OkayAfrica)
- A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass and The Afropolitan Debate (OkayAfrica)
- Natives Is A Startling Novel About Sex, Migration And Stereotypes Of African Virility (OkayAfrica)
- Once is a Mistake, Twice is Jazz (Guernica)
- Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live: Gabriel García Márquez’s Memory (New Inquiry)
- David Graeber’s Debt: My First 5,000 Words (New Inquiry)
- Slow Down and Live: Roland Rugero’s Burundi (Pacific Standard)
- Carmen Boullosa: Raising Consciousness (Guernica)
- Blindness and Vision (Nation)
- Underneath the Darkness (Boston Review)
- The Two Ngugis: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s In the House of the Interpreter (LA Review of Books)
- The innocently readable novel (New Inquiry)
- None of You (New Inquiry)
zunguzungu:
- Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men: parts one, two, three, four, and five
- David Medalie’s “The Mistress’s Dog”
- Laurie Kubuitsile’s “In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata”
- Timothy Keegan’s “What Molly Knew”
- Beatrice Lamwaka’s “Butterfly Dreams”
- NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Hitting Budapest”
- Ernest Hemingway in Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa
- The genre of the African Child Soldier narrative
- We Can Go On, Let’s Go On: The Twilight of V.S. Naipaul
- The Pipes of Sembene Ousmane
- Jonathan Franzen and Unfinished Realism
- The Language of Developmental Literature
- Franco Moretti and the Chinese Novel
- “What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
- Heart of Darkness
- Hawthorne’s Letters
- Vintage Orientalism
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, beginning at the end
- Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun, click to look inside
- Amitav Ghosh, Margaret Atwood, and the Dan David Prize
- Steinbeck and Submarines
- Whitman and Martí: Soldiers of the Bridge
- Walt Whitman’s House
- The Aeneid on Facebook
- Opening the Savage Detectives and Salvaging the Revolution
- “9-11″ and Other Failures of Imagination
- Johann Hari, V.S. Naipaul, and bigotry
- Virginia Woolf in blackface
- Picturing Faulkner
- Kipling’s Swastika
- Africa as Anti-Empire of Signs
- Remembering to Forget
- Teaching this novel again
- Founding and Rape
- Terror and Housepainting
- 7 Panels of One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Solitudes of Von Humboldt
- Shell Games: Keziah Jones and Things Fall Apart
- Things Fall Together; or, the different hats that Chinua Achebe wears
- Things Fall Apart and the Ethnographic Novel Fallacy
- Things Fall Apart: Unknown Knowns and the Research Seminar