Toni Morrison Passes
The doyenne of American fiction, letters, and culture, writer of several prize-winning novels, passed...
Achebe and Education
African literature has long been asked to teach readers about their pasts. What if...
Submissions: Callaloo
Callaloo, a journal on original, creative and critical work by and from the African...
Submissions: Glimmer Train
Glimmer Train, a journal for emerging writers since 1990, is accepting manuscripts till May...
Junot on Trauma
Novelist Junot Diaz has decided to reveal, via nonfiction writing, childhood trauma that he...
Nganang Arrêté
Accusé d’« outrage au chef de l’Etat », Patrice Nganang, camerounais, professeur de la...
Gabo's Digital Archive
University of Texas has done a considerable public service in digitizing, cataloguing, and making...
Buchi Emecheta Passes
Fiction and literature lose a trenchant and influential chronicler of the Nigerian, female and...
Etisalat Prize Shortlist
The Etisalat Prize for Literature has published its shortlist, with judges and readers set...
Translated: ‘El Conde de Montecristo'
Navona has published a definitive Spanish translation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, The Count...
Rose-Innes’ ‘Nineveh’
Henrietta Rose-Innes offers a “gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation” and a “wounded...
Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’
Zadie Smith presents a fluid meditation, via a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists,...
Mufti’s ‘Forget English!’
Aamir Mufti scrutinizes world literature, arguing that in its borderless, global body of writings...
‘Prose of the World’
Saikat Majumdar examines how the affective experience of colonialism shaped the aesthetics we now...
Hoyos’ ‘Beyond Bolaño’
Hector Hoyos challenges world literature as a homogenizing literary endeavor, focusing on how globalizing...
Spivak’s ‘Readings’
Gayatri Spivak elaborates a mode of attention to and analysis of literature, writing, society...