Danzy Senna | The New York Review of Books

Danzy Senna

Danzy Senna’s first novel, Caucasia, won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, Senna is also the author of the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, the story collection You Are Free, and the novels Symptomatic and New People. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the novelist Percival Everett, and their sons. (January 2018)

George Schuyler: An Afrofuturist Before His Time

The first time I read George Schuyler’s 1931 novel, Black No More, its fantastical, speculative premise confused and unsettled me: What if there were a machine that could turn black people permanently white?

January 19, 2018