Audacious with ambition, 'Desdemona' is Toni Morrison's intimate reimagining of the fourth act of Shakespeare's Othello, mixing monologue with Rokia Traore's lyrical songs to re-examine the Bard's presentation of race and female suffering. Part-play, part-concert, part-quest into the afterlife, 'Desdemona' is published here with a new introduction by Joyce Green MacDonald.
