I’ve been thinking about “isms” lately. You know what I am talking about — the three-letter suffix that when tacked onto the end of a word changes said word into something a lot more complicated.

Mateo Askaripour's sophomore novel This Great Hemisphere is a sprawling speculative-fiction narrative that tackles racism, classism, and the perpetual power struggle of politics. But it also delivers ...

Lagos, Nigeria – Tunde Agando was paddling his way back to Makoko floating settlement in his canoe on a January afternoon, after taking his mother to the market, when he saw an amphibious excavator ...