New novel, “Nazaré”, to be published September 14, 2021 by PM Press

Nazaré tells the story of a peasants’ revolt in the polyglot city of Balaal. A homeless boy and the washerwoman who adopts him cobble together a ramshackle army of fishermen, shopkeepers, lapsed nuns, anarchist bats, and an itinerant camel in an attempt to end the reign of Balaal’s dictator. Looming over the disparate cast of…

A Black Polymath Writes the Resistance: Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy

In his introduction, Jesse McCarthy writes that the twenty essays in Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? are true to the word’s French etymology: essai. Essais are “attempts.” But in this outstanding collection, the pieces are more than this. They are experiments that audaciously integrate art, music, literature and politics, all seen through the…