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  Members of THE WHITE REVIEW editorial team, contributors and friends of the magazine reveal the books they’ve been reading and revisiting in 2020       Victoria Adukwei Bulley   First and foremost, The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom was a book that I’d been dying to read since I first heard about it, and to my joy it absolutely delivered Revolving around Broom’s New Orleans childhood home, this is a work that covers memoir, cultural geography, archival practice, oral tradition, and so much more Broom has such mastery of language that all of this hangs together seamlessly, and on my shelf The Yellow House lives next to Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, because I think both authors are at work on the same kind of project in each their own brilliant ways I also want to shoutout Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D G Kelley for its rich expansiveness — Kelley is an incredible writer and scholar, and there is nothing better than reading a non-fiction book where the enthusiast in the author spills through And finally, I too would like to add to the hype of Raven Leilani’s Luster, which I think is a stunning and perceptively sharp debut that glimmers with deep tenderness as well as humour     Katherine Angel   This year I was blown away by Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, which isn’t out until March 2021 (Granta) It does many things at once, in gorgeous prose I also loved Selva Almada’s Dead Girls (translated by Annie McDermott, Charco Press), about murdered women in Argentina It’s crisp, bracing, and beautiful Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine (Indigo Press, 2019) was a satisfyingly nuanced account of the terrible bind we’re in, in relation to social media I loved reading Tim Dean’s Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (UCP, 2009), which, amongst other things, explores the limits of identification and empathy as a starting-point for thought and politics — themes that recur in Bruce Fink’s Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique (Norton, 2007), which conveys what Lacanian ideas might mean in practice Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings (Profile, 2020) was brilliant, thoughtful, and funny Right now I’m loving Bette