By JJ Amaworo Wilson Humans have been hungry for a long time. The four-thousand-year-old tomb of Ankhtifi holds the inscription…
Damnificados
A Black Polymath Writes the Resistance: Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy
By JJ Amaworo Wilson In his introduction, Jesse McCarthy writes that the twenty essays in Who Will Pay Reparations on…
Banned Books Week
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses came out in 1988. He spent the next ten years…
Six Short Pieces for Jimmy Santiago Baca: a review of Baca’s Laughing in the Light by JJ Amaworo Wilson
By JJ Amaworo Wilson (Re)birth: Jimmy finds a new meaning for the word “sentence” When Jimmy Santiago Baca was in…
Brazil Burning: A Review of The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections by JJ Amaworo Wilson
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Brazil is in peril. Latin America’s biggest country is being led by a dangerous buffoon, Jair…
A Der Spiegel Review of the German Edition of Damnificados (in German)
Die Lumpenarmee stürmt den Wolkenkratzer In Caracas steht der riesige “Torre de David” leer, jahrelang wurde er von Obdachlosen bewohnt.…
Victor Acquista reads Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
JJ Amaworo Wilson is a German-born, British-educated debut novelist. Based in the U.S., he has lived in 9 countries and…
Words on a Wire: JJ Amaworo Wilson
Words on a Wire February 28th, 2016 Back to JJ Amaworo Wilson’s Author Page
The Other Damnificados: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
By JJ Amaworo Wilson One hundred years from now, historians will want to describe African American life in the 21st…
Poet Mohammed al Ajami Released from Qatar Prison
By JJ Amaworo Wilson After more than four years in prison, Qatari poet Mohammed al Ajami has been pardoned and…