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Workshopping the Disaster
The disaster takes care of everything. So riffed the philosopher and faithless mystic Maurice Blanchot in The Writing of the Disaster (L’Écriture du désastre), a book I pore over in wobbly moments.
In the City of Gardens
Living in Birmingham is like micro-dosing Pakistan.
The Panic Room of the World
Once, I watched a Nollywood film where a man sprouted the legs of a goat.
Best of 2025
Listing nudges
August Recs
Another month, another set of recommendations.
East African Summer
Various alignments.
Off the Dome
Summer encroaches.
A Series of Bulletproof Strategies for the Appropriately Naive, Cynical, or Desperate Diasporic Writer
The backlash to the backlash.
Outliving the Wolves
The life and legacy of Heiny Srour.
New Year, Same Script
Missives (Transatlantic Edition)
Message, Received
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a habit of returning to his origins.
Missives (Summer passages)
Sounds and Seasons
Reluctant anniversaries.
From Within the Ouroboros
Missives (Aries Season)
passing
On Pleasure & Power(lessness)
I began writing this essay in 2018, and I read it in its final form to a public audience sometime in the following year. A thought-provoking debate ensued.
American Fiction and Other Costumes
A review and emotional history
The Joys and Pains of Misdirection
Some core lessons deepened in 2023.