Code Noir

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin is a daring, genre-blurring mosaic of linked fictions.

What We Say: This is a formidable, daring work that reclaims history while interrogating the present. Across 59 linked stories, Canisia transforms an instrument of oppression into a prism for resistance, imagination and survival. The writing is razor-sharp, lyrical and politically urgent, moving fluidly between realism, dystopia and myth. Paired with striking visual art, the book is like an incantation. Read it.  

What They Say: “A revelation... Lubrin is one of the finest writers and thinkers of our time.” – Maaza Mengiste  

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