Saidiya Hartman

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Dionne Brand |Saidiya Hartman |John C. Keene

For five decades, Dionne Brand has explored the boundaries of form, writing at the intersection of poetics and critical thought.

Aug 22, 2024 | nplusonemag.com | Saidiya Hartman

Crow Jane doesn’t say the sun’s gonna shine in her back door someday or lament motherless children or keen for those murdered in the streets, but she does assure us that a better day is coming, that the arc of empire bends toward justice. That progress, although sometimes painful, is inevitable.

Jul 25, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Justin Torres |Amelia Possanza |Saidiya Hartman |Hugh Ryan

For me, queerness has always been related to imagination. Like many of us, I grew up without a blueprint for a queer life. In the evangelical household I was raised in, I had to dream my queerness into existence, conjure a life that was forbidden to me, claim it because no one was ever going to give it to me. This has been true for so many of us, now and in the past, as we’ve existed outside of and beyond the boundaries of what our world calls normal and good.

Jul 8, 2024 | newspub.live | Denis Johnson |Ann Patchett |Jesmyn Ward |Saidiya Hartman

Stephen King“Atonement,” by Ian McEwan ● “Christine Falls,” by Benjamin Black ● “The Goldfinch,” by Donna Tartt ● “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn ● “No Country for Old Men,” by Cormac McCarthy ● “Oryx and Crake,” by Margaret Atwood ● “The Paying Guests,” by Sarah Waters ● “The Plot Against America,” by Philip Roth ● “The Sympathizer,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen ● “Under the Dome,” by Stephen King1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.

Jun 9, 2023 | uwalumni.com | Saidiya Hartman |Zora Neale Hurston |Ama Ata Aidoo |Octavia E. Butler

In the introduction to The Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, Canadian poet Dionne Brand recalls a conversation with her grandfather, during which he struggled to conjure the name of the African people from which their family descended. “Having no name to call on was having no past,” she writes.