The Horrifying Reality of Ray Shell’s “Iced” – Chicago Review of Books

The Horrifying Reality of Ray Shell’s “Iced” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It is evident from the very first pages of Ray Shell’s Iced, that the book’s story is unlike any other you’ve ever heard or read. The novel follows Cornelius Washington Jr., a once-promising man from an upper-middle-class Black family, who now operates in a ‘90s drug-riddled New York City. Following tragedy after tragedy, mistake … Read more

Myth and Metaphor in “Walking on Cowrie Shells” – Chicago Review of Books

Myth and Metaphor in “Walking on Cowrie Shells” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The final story of Nana Nkweti’s debut short story collection, “Kinks,” bears the book title in a telling passage:  “No matter how many boardroom doors Jennifer walked through, sometimes she felt her steps falter—in the Ghanaian beauty shop, at Awing tribal meetings, she felt like a counterfeit African, felt the unworthiness of the maid’s … Read more