ESSAYS
She’s Capital! (NYRB)
Morrison Hall (NYRB)
A Simple Ethos (Dissent)
The Shimmering Go-Between (NYRB)
The Afronaut Archives (Public Books)
Unbothered (The Yale Review)
River of Time (NYT Magazine)
On Black Difficulty (Slate)
Beauty Tips from My Dead Sister (BuzzFeed)
The Afronaut (New Yorker)
Turquoise: A Catalogue (Cabinet)
criticism
Critical Navel-Gazing (Yale Review)
Hit Me, Baby (NYRB)
“Such Womanly Touches” (NYRB)
Mohsin Hamid’s Empty Parable (The Atlantic)
A Dew-Lined Web: On Sula (Paris Review)
Maaza Mengiste: A Modern Song of War (NYT)
Race Off (The Yale Review)
The Banality of Empathy (NYRB)
When Science Fiction Comes True (NYT)
Glossing Africa (NYRB)
The Great Africanstein Novel (NYRB)
Kenya in Another Tongue (NYRB)
FILM & TV
The New Literalism (The New Yorker)
Pixar’s Troubled Soul (The New Yorker)
In the Time of Monsters: Watchmen (NYRB)
The Rest of Us: Atlantiques (The Nation)
Dark Horse: #DemThrones (NYT Magazine)
Uncanny Valleys: Us (The Nation)
Beastly: Bad Women in The Favourite (NYRB)
Sorry to Bother You: Trojan Horseplay (NYRB)
Black Panther: Choose Your Weapons (NYRB)
Blade Runner 2024’s Immaterial Girls (NYRB)
Get Out’s Zombies (Public Books)