Wortham calls the book, aptly, “a mosaic that holds the relentless terror of Black life as well as its undeniable beauty,” then quotes Sharpe on her aims for the notes she has assembled here: “I wanted them to have a certain kind of force and velocity and accumulation.” (They have exactly that, according to Jennifer Szalai’s thoughtful review, as well as a radical sense of integrity and resistance.) Maybe add that to your reading list this week?Īlso recommended: a historical romance and three other novels (about World War II-era Singapore, an Indian family expelled from Uganda and a competitive swimmer who turns into a mermaid). Have you had a chance yet to dive into Jenna Wortham’s terrific profile, in last weekend’s Times Magazine, of the writer and thinker Christina Sharpe? A professor of English literature and Black studies in Toronto, Sharpe is also the author of the new book “Ordinary Notes,” a pointillistic examination of the ways that Blackness intersects with the culture at large, for better and for worse.
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