GARDEN OF WORDS

Tag: Black Authors

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Message (2024)

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    To obscure the exclusion of Gazan and Palestinian journalists elsewhere from global reporting is no accident, but a distraction into representation and inclusion into an already unjust system.  What do we do with the wisdom he calls for, why witness if not even speak precisely about violence?

  • Chi-Ming Yang: Octavia E. Butler – H is for Horse (2025)

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    Many of us know – and love- Octavia E. Butler’s writing, and the elaborate futures and ideologies created in books like Parable of the Talents. But perhaps not much is known about the author’s early days and formative experiences. Chi-ming Yang’s “H is for Horse” aims to change that by focusing on Butler’s childhood and…

  • Brandon Dale: Hunting (2026)

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    This short but sweet book, intertwining queer Black Indigenous memoir and nature writing with a manifesto on bringing people of colour from the cities into the outdoors made me want to close the book, find the nearest hunter and ask to be introduced to the art of conscious hunting. Opening Hunting, we are asked to…

  • THE LIST BY YOMI ADEGOKE (PUB. 2023)

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    What if you woke up, only a few weeks before your wedding, and found your fiance’s name on a list of abusers? What if you were also a public figure and your relationship was constantly watched?  The List is a book that has generated division among its readers, and has been misunderstood in its complexity…

    THE LIST BY YOMI ADEGOKE (PUB. 2023)

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