Science fiction, as one character in Nnedi Okorafor’s metafictional Death of the Author puts it, is about “being different, seeing more, examining human nature, and imagining tomorrow.” And though the ...

Jami Attenberg did not own a bed frame until she was 45 years old. Her life, as she describes in her engrossing memoir-in-essays, has been shaped by wanderlust and a need to create stories. The ...

Four Nigerian authors, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Nnedi Okorafor, Bolu Babalola, and Olufunke Grace Bankole, make TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025. It’s another thing entirely to pick up a book written by ...