Kaitlyn Greenidge

Biography

Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You Charlie Freeman (Algonquin, 2016) and the forthcoming LIBERTIE (Algonquin, 2021). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Believer, American Short Fiction, and other publications. 

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CRITICISM / Fall 2020

Kiss and Tell

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

There is a strain of Black campus novel that is obsessed with “realness.” I can trace its origins to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, in which the narrator leads his college’s white trustee on a darkly comic and ill-fated tour of the Black...
CRITICISM / Summer 2020

Sex in the City

By Kaitlyn Greenidge
CRITICISM / Spring 2019

An Outside Man

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

When Marlon James announced his follow-up to his Booker-Prize winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, it was met with intense excitement. James is best known as a literary novelist with a reputation for not mincing his words in...
CRITICISM / Winter 2017

Shaken Out of Time

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

Midway through Zadie Smith’s new novel, Swing Time, the unnamed narrator watches two girls walk “hand in hand” down a dusty road in an anonymous, fictionalized African country. “They looked like best friends,” she notes—that “looked”...
CRITICISM

The Riotous Power of Toni Morrison

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

In her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, there’s no danger of desiccation. Morrison’s work is as insistent as ever. She could still be charged with inciting a riot—albeit a quiet one, one that lends itself to pernicious reversals of...