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Zainab Uche Imam’s debut novel, Love, Lagos & Other Complications: A Lagos Love Story is an entertaining read about finding love despite past hurts, hang-ups, and the hell that is the Lagos dating ...

Nicholas Boggs’s new biography, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” places James Baldwin in the context of the people to whom he grew closest, not just romantic partners, like his first great love, the Swiss ...