Each month, The New Yorker invites a writer to read something from the archives of the magazine. This month, Ms Adichie reads Jamaica Kincaid’s Figures in the Distance, first published in the May 9, 1983 issue of The New Yorker. It is a great choice. Check out the podcast here. While you are at it,… Read More »
1. Sefi Atta’s Simpatico 2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Quality Street. Both guest-edited by Claire Messud for Guernica Magazine.
He had been watching his son since he started the game. The boy had been chasing a red-head lizard for about thirty minutes, and now he had finally got him. He held the wriggling lizard by the tail and went outside. Still holding him he came back into the parlour of their room and parlour… Read More »
Fola stood before her father’s sickbed, staring at him with what seemed like rapt attention but she wasn’t seeing anything. As she stood staring, her feelings traversed the fields of sympathy, pity, disgust, and anger. These feelings were so deep that the images they called-up in her mind were so overwhelming she felt they would… Read More »