Suffering Is Literature’s Big Game

Suffering Is Literature’s Big Game

Apropos of writing an essay on the experience of plodding through a difficult time in my life, I have been thinking about what suffering means for the artist. The process of writing that essay, as one would expect, was a dark affair layered with distress and pain. I...

Spirit Wife, Spirit Life

To appease my spirit wife, I must first follow a process of knowing my chi, the guardian spirit of every Igbo person, and then head to a river.