Fans of Rachel Cusk’s much-acclaimed fiction might be intrigued by this debut novel from Toronto-based writer Dawn Promislow, author of one previous short-story collection. As with Cusk’s [...]
In 1773 Phillis Wheatley, a Black woman who had been enslaved in Africa and taken to America, published a volume of poetry, barely out of her teens. She was the first Black person in the US (and [...]