Canisia Lubrin's first novel, Code Noir, was published this week (February 2024) by Knopf Canada. Deborah Dundas (Toronto Star) writes that Code Noir “subverts the infamous code dictating the life of slaves decreed by King Louis XIV of France.” Description: Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art a brilliant, startlingly original book that…
“Creole Histories: An Evening with Edwidge Danticat, Nathalie Joachim, and Canisia Lubrin” will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, from 6:30 to 8:00pm (DST) at the Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street) in New York. [Admission is free, but registration is required. See link below.] Description (MoMA): Join us for a special…
Me Seeing You Seeing Me Seeing You Seeing Me ad infinitum, until the walls break down, the plastic bags around our shoes decompose, the benches we’re sitting on decay, and the sound system breaks. Ad infinitum until there’s nothing left but the seeing and the me, no matter how unstable or temporary this arrangement ever was.