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New Black-owned Mississippi shop isn't worried about Amazon ISABELLE TAFT, Sun Herald FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5A shelf of children's coloring books and other books at Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store Monday, July 12, 2021 in Gulfport, Miss. Inside a little office in downtown Gulfport, Tonisha Kimble is writing a new chapter in Mississippi’s history of Black-owned book stores. Kimble opened the Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store space earlier this month, after years in business as an online vendor. (Isabelle Taft/The Sun Herald via AP)Isabelle Taft/APShow MoreShow L...

Read Long Division by Kiese Laymon and immediately you feel the revelry in the prose. It’s folkloric, modern, rendered with warmth and humour, and always coming back to the subject of love – what we do for it, who we become for it. Sometimes anything, sometimes anyone. It poses questions about the distorting power of expectation, when there is too much, when there is none – and questions about our participation in that distortion. And then, more love, the gorgeous speculative corners of this book a testament to how the fabric of space and time even bend to that need. The Days ...

Kiese Laymon joins the Reckon interview to discuss buying back the rights to his first two books and releasing new revised editions.

Dear every single Black author who dropped a book today,

Zakiya Dalila Harris makes a thrilling debut with The Other Black Girl, journalist Mike Rothschild takes on QAnon, New Yorker writer Sheldon Pearce assembles a Tupac oral history, and more books to read in June.