We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.