Nicole Dennis-Benn

May 23, 2024 | audible.com | Madeline Anthony |Nicole Dennis-Benn |Jeanette Winterson |Emily M. Danforth

Lesbian literature had come a long way since the days when the poetry of Sappho and underground novels like Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness were among the few widely available options. Still, anyone on the hunt for the best LGBTQIA+ audiobooks knows that it can still be challenging to find stories centred on lesbian characters and experiences.

Apr 9, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Nicole Dennis-Benn |Yaa Gyasi |Katie Kitamura |Colm Toibin

Skip to content Reading Lists Sheila Sundar, author of "Habitations," recommends books about women who are trying to make sense of their adopted country and find their place in it I first heard the term “smart women adrift” from my graduate school professor, Sigrid Nunez—herself a master of writing incisive female characters. At the time, the term made me laugh, because it opened an umbrella over a type of literary woman who had long existed, unclassified, in my literary consciousness, and...

Oct 6, 2023 | vogue.com | Safiya Sinclair |Nicole Dennis-Benn

Safiya Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon is a memoir that has been called “lushly observed and keenly reflective” by the Washington Post and very warmly reviewed elsewhere. It tracks the author’s childhood in Jamaica, where she was raised by a strict Rastafai father, the potential escape that a nascent career in modeling might have offered her, and the foreclosed possibility when her father forbade her from cutting her dreadlocks.

Mar 23, 2023 | nytimes.com | Nicole Dennis-Benn

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Mar 23, 2023 | nytimes.com | Nicole Dennis-Benn

Comments 4 Seeking the Spirited, Mystical Jamaica Tourists Don’t SeeSkip to Comments Seeking the Spirited, Mystical Jamaica Tourists Don’t See Photographs by Naila Ruechel Text By Nicole Dennis-Benn When the photographer Naila Ruechel proposed a trip documenting religious practices in Jamaica — the country where we were both born — she set out to “offer a broader understanding of the spiritual lives of Jamaican people; a Jamaica unseen by the average visitor.” Starting from Kingston, Ruechel...