Criticism/Memoir
The Washington Font of Memory by Malik Wilson
November 2026
In The Font of Memory Malik Wilson remembers the last tickling days of Black Washington, of the Chocolate City, and its understated, unstated values, practices, beliefs. He unearths a universe-in-motion, and in miniature, through the houses of his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all just blocks away, in a time when we were all still together.
Criticism/Memoir
214 Rittenhouse by Malik Wilson
December 2026
One neighborhood, one home, one place forms a tiny cosmology, a full universe of meaning and possibility. In 214 Rittenhouse, Malik Wilson recalls the home of his grandparents, the sense of a neighborhood, the men and women who filled up his hallways, and the community that once was.
