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The Cult Classic That Expanded What African Literature Could Be

This month, THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD returns to life in a striking new edition, along with Tutuola’s 1954 follow-up, “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,” with introductions by Wole Soyinka and Kaveh Akbar. Originally published under the Evergreen imprint of Grove Press, the books appeared alongside the storied house’s rogues’ gallery of midcentury American and European avant-garde authors like William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. Read more

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