Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell is a literary critic, fiction writer, and professor of English. She is the author of the novels The Old Drift and The Furrows, and the works of literary criticism Seven Modes of Uncertainty, Stranger Faces, and On Morrison.

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
June 8, 2026

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
June 10, 2024

Race Off

The fantasy of race transformation
September 27, 2021

Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance
December 1, 2020
Conversations

The Limits of Empathy

Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
December 1, 2020