![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Cooper’s work, as her subtitle suggests, is a more specific celebration of the power of black feminism. Below, you’ll find essays, poetry, three striking fiction debuts, the first graphic novel to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and more.Įloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney CooperĮloquent Rage has sometimes been grouped, given its topic, with Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad and Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her, as one of a trio of excellent explorations of the capabilities of feminine-and feminist-anger. Our list isn’t definitive or comprehensive, but guided by individual interests and tastes. But they also reach past political themes to the most intimate and universal of stories: a cross-continental meditation on transitory love, a warm and funny account of aging, a timeless reinvention of an ancient myth, and an absorbing deconstruction of faith, to name a few. The books our writers and editors were drawn to this year include many that illuminate these struggles and inequities, whether in the form of visceral sonnets, lyrical history, or dizzyingly surreal detective yarns. Editor’s Note: Find all of The Atlantic ’s “Best of 2018” coverage here.Ģ018 was a year whose realities sometimes seemed to approach the dystopias and dramas of fiction, as stories of family trauma, environmental disaster, and sexual assault played out on the world stage. ![]()
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