Award-winning Nigerian sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor has announced that she’ll be writing an eight-page comic for Marvel’s forthcoming Venomverse anthology, slated to come out in September 2017.
Chimamanda Adichie Wins French Magazine Literary Prize
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of three winners of Le Grand Prix de l’héroïne Madame Figaro 2017.
Painting sells for world record $110.5m
A 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold Thursday for $110.5 million, the highest price paid at auction for a work by an American artist. It is also a world record price ever paid for contemporary work of art.