
The cover photograph of my edition of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s “In a Free State” would be hilarious if only it were funny.

The cover photograph of my edition of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s “In a Free State” would be hilarious if only it were funny.
When Baby Suggs, ultimate matriarch and sorceress in Toni Morrison’s masterpiece “Beloved,”