Erik Gleibermann is a World Literature Today contributing editor, social-justice journalist, literary critic, memoirist, and poet. He has written for the Atlantic, New York Times, Oprah Daily, Washington Post, Guardian, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and numerous others literary journals. His work-in-progress is Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir.
A view of Lagos Marina | Photo by Namnso Ukpanah on Unsplash
THE WOMEN SLIDE through stalled traffic, balancing on their colorful head scarves baskets of plantains for sale, o...
The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars, and thro...
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Days after a bicycle crash that would erase her memory for two months, Ingrid Rojas Contreras...
Left to right: Ayobami Adebayo, Chigozie Obioma, and Romeo Oriogun
Three millennial writers probe inner male conflict while the patriarch Achebe looks on.
A man lays his head...
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika has lived a global story that mirrors that of the protagonists in her recently reissued novel, In Dependence. Ladipo Manyika grew up...
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Edwidge Danticat writes about death, even the most brutal, with a lyricism that reminds us of a primal paradox—within the deepest violence and loss, the life-force reass...
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I’m sure it wasn’t coincidental, when I phoned Alice Walker at her northern California home in August, to find her gardening...
Editorial note: This sidebar appears with Erik Gleibermann’s essay “Inside the Bilingual Writer” in the same issue
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arlon James’s use of Jamaican Patois in his 2015 Booker Prize–winning nove...
Daniel Alarcón, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Ha Jin, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gary Shteyngart. Illustration by Jen Rickard Blair
Through a series of interviews, E...