January 18, 2024
Safiya Sinclair’s memoir, HOW TO SAY BABYLON, is named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1738258302285283466?lang=en
December 21, 2023
The standout 100 books of 2023, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html
November 15, 2023
A conversation with Irish author Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her book CACOPHONY OF BONE: “I am partial to winter light, the kind that falls on crows and on swans alike. The kind that reminds us what it means to dream, to fly, to love, to live, to forgive.”
https://orionmagazine.org/article/cacophany-of-bone-book-interview-kerri-ni-dochartaigh/
October 25, 2023
Oprah and Adam Grant Reveal How to Unlock Your Hidden Potential in an installment of “The Life You Want” class.
October 25, 2023
Author Safiya Sinclair joins TODAY to talk about her memoir HOW TO SAY BABYLON and answers questions from the Harlem branch of the Mocha Girls Read book club.
https://www.today.com/video/author-safiya-sinclair-talks-memoir-how-to-say-babylon-196369989788
October 24, 2023
Grant talks to CBS Mornings about his new book HIDDEN POTENTIAL: The Science of Achieving Greater Things and why he thinks all people can rise to achieve great things.
August 19, 2023
Elizabeth Rush talks about her journey to Antarctica and motherhood on NPR’s Morning Edition
August 14, 2023
Lorraine Berry reviews Elizabeth Rush’s THE QUICKENING for Los Angeles Times: “We have long spoken of journeys to the poles as going “to the ends of the earth.” But what if a voyage to Antarctica takes us to beginnings?”
May 30, 2023
NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Victor Luckerson, author of Built from the Fire, and Oklahoma state Rep. Regina Goodwin, about the lasting effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
May 18, 2023
Joseph Williams reviews Victor Luckerson’s BUILT FROM THE FIRE for the Star Tribune: In Victor Luckerson’s BUILT FROM THE FIRE, the atrocity that destroyed the thriving epicenter of Black Tulsa — but remained buried in U.S. history for decades — stands in for a larger American story. . . how white fear & resentment has sabotaged racial progress & claimed Black lives, in the present and past.”
April 22, 2023
An excerpt from Elizabeth Rush’s THE QUICKENING is published in Vogue: “What Antarctica’s Melting Glaciers Taught Me About Becoming a Mother”
April 20, 2023
Rita Dove on the poetry of Safiya Sinclair: “[T]o paraphrase Emily Dickinson, she took the top of my head off! I was electrified by the soul & muscular elegance of the poems.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/t-magazine/rita-dove-safiya-sinclair.html