DK Nnuro

Jul 9, 2024 | pshares.org | DK Nnuro |Rebecca Makkai

Because of a headache it would turn out I only needed to sleep off, I hadn’t gone to school the day a car struck down Osbert Tetteh. Osbert was the boy I was closest to in class four. I was the girl he was closest to. That day, my mother had waited until ten a.m. before setting off for work—as soon as she was certain sleep would do the trick. I slept until mid-afternoon and then spread out on my stomach on the cool linoleum floor of our living room.

May 16, 2024 | pastsimperfect.substack.com | Sarah E. Bond |DK Nnuro

This week, we look at a new book by Princeton professor Caroline Cheung, Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine, and re-view the Roman economy through the lens of massive ceramic vessels called dolia. Then, an update on campus protests on the West Coast from Rita Lucarelli, including important statements from the Classics Department at UCLA and the ACLS.

Dec 4, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |DK Nnuro

Skip to content conversations Eskor David Johnson, author of the novel "Pay As You Go," on what fables can teach us of our contemporary life Eskor David Johnson’s Pay As You Go is set in an imagined city, Polis, one that takes elements from New York to Chicago to London and magnifies them to grandiose size. Traversing Polis is an intrepid hero of sorts, Slide, whose rare mix of panache, naivety, earnestness, and humor makes him a mesmerizing act to follow through this urban jungle as he...

Oct 30, 2023 | republic.com.ng | DK Nnuro

What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Everything in Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin series. I was obsessed! If your life so far was a series of texts, which text (fiction or non-fiction) represents you at this moment? If only my boring life could be the stuff of fiction or nonfiction. But I realized a major dream this year. So, I would say that any character who realizes a major dream in the course of a literary work should suffice as an analog.

Jun 6, 2023 | audible.com | S. A. Cosby |DK Nnuro |T. Jefferson Parker |Dennis Lehane

Cosby writes another perfect southern thriller “The South is Christ-haunted by hypocrisy of religion” I am a huge fan of S. A. Cosby. His books always possess gritty crimes in the small-town rural south, showcasing the ugly underbelly of the south. His protagonists are black men, well-meaning and fighting the endless fight of racism, hatred, and poverty. There’s always a high body count in his stories.