the “core memory” meme. Most trends on TikTok ask you to film something new, but the core memory trend asks you to mine your hard drive for something so precious, it’s core to who you are.

These are concerns that the Senegalese novelist Mohamed Mbougar Sarr explores in his brainy and beautiful novel “The Most Secret Memory of Men.” Sarr is part of a wave of Francophone writers ...

“The Most Secret Memory of Men,” by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, examines a plagiarism case and the place of African literature in the West. By Ben Libman When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

Writing, we are reminded, is impossible without borrowing, Sarr reminds us. The Most Secret Memory of Men reflects on colonialism and its aftermath, telling a multitude of narratives through “a ...