Confronting sudden loss in her own life, Namwali Serpell has written “The Furrows,” a disquieting portrait of the human mind, warped by grief. By Lauren Christensen After Chisha died, she came back to ...

In Namwali Serpell’s novel “The Furrows,” a childhood tragedy brings a lifetime of strange encounters. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

Furrows are a concentric system of tectonic troughs, and are the oldest recognizable surface feature on Ganymede. We analyzed the distribution of furrows utilizing Voyager and Galileo images and found ...

NAMWALI SERPELL: I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: That's author Namwali Serpell reading from her second novel, "The Furrows: An Elegy." ...

IN looking over some specimens of “prehistoric” pottery found in Japan I was led, about a year ago, to give some attention to the character of certain finger-marks which had been made on them while ...

When C is 12 years old, she and her little brother Wayne go swimming and a terrible accident occurs. Wayne drowns—and his body is never found. Years later, the boy’s disappearance has torn apart his ...