Fiction
Spring 1997
He Sleeps
I The muezzin’s midday call floats overhead as my friend Idrissa and I wait along the roadside for the number 7 bus which we’ll take to Dakar. Usually I take […]
Fiction
Spring 1994
The More I like Flies
All right, man, so I’m busing down tables–we gotta do our own here, and we gotta sweep, mop, wash dishes, and do just about everything else, too–and I’m trying to […]
Interview
Spring 1994
We Are, in Fact, a Civilization: An Interview with Reginald McKnight
Reginald McKnight’s three books include Moustapha’s Eclipse (winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize), I Get on the Bus, and The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. He […]
Fiction
Summer 1989
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
I never liked Marvin Pruitt. Never liked him, never knew him, even though there were only three of us in the class. Three black kids. In our school there were […]