Gbenga Adesina’s stunning debut book of poems explores the complexity of elusive citizenship and offers the reader an immigrant’s brokenhearted prayer for a new beginning, a chorus of elegies, and a cosmic love song between the living and the dead.
In these stories, set mostly in South Korea, all must contend with the uncertainty and danger that come with connection, real or imagined, and grapple with what it is we really want from the people we think we need.
Black Planet, David Shields’s diary of the 1994–95 Seattle SuperSonics’ NBA season—a self-conscious deconstruction of fandom, media, and race—changed sports journalism.