Under Starry Skies

Rain splattered across the patio of an old-style bungalow, its windy and slapdash whistling disrupting a dull order in the array of garde...

Esoteric. The word came ringing in my head with every paragraph and page I weaved through in July’s People (1981) by 1991 Nobel Prize fo...

Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (1991), winner of the Booker Prize, is a veritable treat for lovers of ...

In Way Back Home (2013), Niq Mhlongo writes briskly. His style doesn’t seek to linger, and he doesn’t attempt to infus...

He wants to tell someone. Instead, he’s distracted by yellow weaverbirds delighting him in his front yard singing...