Journal

The Journal

Essays, craft notes, and the odd confession.

Longer thoughts that do not fit in a book, published when they are ready and not before.

Essay

On keeping other people's letters

What a shoebox of second-hand correspondence taught me about how we remember, and why I cannot stop buying them.

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Craft

Writing the thing left unsaid

Why the most important line in a scene is often the one no character ever speaks aloud.

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Notebook

A dry season in Ibadan

Field notes from the three months that slowly became my second novel, Harmattan.

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Reading

Slow is a virtue

In praise of reading badly, twice, and out of order.

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Place

Belonging to nowhere in particular

On carrying two homes and being fully at ease in neither.

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Essay

My grandmother's recipes, in her hand

What handwriting keeps that a printed page lets go.

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Letters from the desk

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