Chimamanda has returned to fiction after 12 years. But is the author stuck in the 2010s?
Dream Count examines middle-aged Black women's bodily and emotional ravages across Africa and the diaspora, set against Covid, with candid, unapologetic realism.
Lorde's music explores intense physicality and complicated relationships with her body, blending themes of femininity, disordered eating, and creative labor through visceral lyrics.