“Gĩkũyũ is the language I feel more. English is just what I’m used to now.”

“If your name can dissolve and recombine into another name, who are you anyway?”

Namwali Serpell on the forgotten timelessness and otherworldly atmosphere of Wil­liam Hope Hodgson’s novel ‘The House on the Borderland.’

The problem of the twenty-first century may well be the problem of the digital face.