Black Cake
Black Cake is Charmaine Wilkerson’s moving debut novel in which two estranged siblings, Byron and Benny, must come to terms with their mother’s death and their hidden past.
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Swing Time
My favourite thing about this book is the way it approaches serious problems with a light touch, while still granting them their gravity.
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No country for eight-spot butterflies: A lyric essay
The slim volume No country for eight-spot butterflies consists of luminous speeches, essays and poems that Julian Aguon has written on various occasions in recent years. He addresses climate injustices, the ongoing colonization of Guam and his involvement in working towards social justice.
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Und jetzt Du: Rassismuskritisch leben
Tupoka Ogette has been working as a racism-critical consultant and trainer for ten years. By now she is undisputedly one of the leading voices in the critique of racism in Germany. Und jetzt Du is her second book.
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Assembly
As the title of Natasha Brown’s debut novel suggests, it amounts to a coming-together, an assembling. A Black British woman attends a party for an upper-class white family. This celebration in rural England is the culmination of her inner dilemmas: has she made it or are her actions making her an accomplice to the racism she experiences? At this party, she makes up her mind.
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On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous
“On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous” is a dramatic coming-of-age story interlaced with family trauma, and a letter to the mother of the now-adult narrator. This highly poetic book conveys a nuanced and exceedingly ambivalent understanding of violence.
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Afropean
Johny Pitts takes his readers on a journey to find Afropean spaces in Europe. The impressions Pitts shares of the various places he visits are in turn amusing, moving, and critical, as he offers the insights of an interested listener and observer who consciously seeks challenging encounters.
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