Julian Lucas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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It moves like an essay, interweaving slices of life with musings on Malian guitar virtuosos, astronomical phenomena, films by Ingmar Bergman and Abbas Kiarostami. Cole’s mind is so agile that it’s easy to follow him anywhere.

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How did African soldiers fare in the wars between their colonizers? My thoughts on Abdulrazak Gurnah—laureate of orphans, exiles, wicked uncles, and troubled homecomings—and his latest novel, “Afterlives,” in this week’s @NewYorker https://t.co/nkHt5tdOVc

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“How the Word is Passed” is a powerful reckoning with American slavery remembrance — place by place and tourist by tourist. My review of @ClintSmithIII’s latest for @nytimesbooks https://t.co/xV35CBg52i

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Tonight! Come see me and @drovarela discuss his exciting debut “The Town of Babylon,” which captures the ghosts of suburban adolescence like nothing else I’ve read https://twitter.com/drovarela/status/1524434160563093504

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Great to see @Mukasonga’s “Kibogo” — a witty satirical novel about a renegade priest in WWII-era Rwanda — on the @nationalbook longlist. You can read an excerpt here https://t.co/yAHnccKjaA

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RT @WrittenByHanna: Ishmael Reed, satirist who created the play The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda on Hamilton https://t.co/GYPBqDCxuP

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In prose so taut and graceful that it almost seems braced against her destabilizing theme, Carson teases out the wily contradictions of the desiring imagination…it’s thrilling to accompany one of the most sensitive and formidable minds that ever reckoned with either.

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“Something old and nasty is reviving... the officials of Olivar permitted their town to be taken over, bought out, privatized” — Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-16/amazon-s-new-factory-towns-will-lift-the-working-class

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Couldn’t be more excited to launch @Chikaokekeagulu (and the late Okwui Enwezor’s) brilliant new monograph “El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture” with the author, the artist, and the great @jsf. Join us @newmuseum on Thursday at 6:30pm https://t.co/x35ycScw4b

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Samuel Delany’s “Nova” has forged Benin bronzes decorating a 32nd-century mansion in the Pleiades. A new challenge for @artcrimeprof? https://t.co/IQc0B7iSEq