by DYB Team | Jun 2, 2026 | BIPOC
Some books you find years after they came out, dusty on a shelf at a friend’s place. Others arrive in the world the same morning you decide to write about them. This one is the second kind. Muñeca, the debut novel by the Oakland writer Cynthia Gómez, publishes...
by DYB Team | May 28, 2026 | BIPOC, Latin America
Some books almost did not survive. This is one of them. Love, Anger, Madness is a trilogy of three short novels by the Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet, originally published in French as Amour, Colère et Folie in 1968. The book came out, ran into trouble almost...
by DYB Team | May 27, 2026 | BIPOC, Latin America
I’m going to be honest. This is a book I held in my hands for a long time before I opened it. Eleven hundred pages will do that. The spine alone looks like a building. But once I started reading, the size stopped mattering. The book gets bigger as you go in, not...
by DYB Team | May 22, 2026 | BIPOC, Black Authors
The narrator has no name. He is telling his story from a basement somewhere in Harlem, in a room he has wired with 1,369 light bulbs, all running on stolen electricity, all turned on at once. How he got there is the novel. He grew up in the segregated South, won a...
by DYB Team | May 21, 2026 | BIPOC, Black Authors
The world is ending. Again. On a planet called the Stillness, which is anything but, civilizations rise and fall on a geological clock, every few centuries shattered by a Fifth Season of climate catastrophe and ash-blotted skies. Three women carry the story. A...
by DYB Team | May 17, 2026 | BIPOC, Black Authors
Sethe escaped slavery and made it across the Ohio River to a small house outside Cincinnati, but the past has followed her there, and one day a young woman calling herself Beloved appears at the door. What unfolds is a ghost story, a mother’s reckoning, and a...
