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...
Rankine, Spahr On Dubois
Two poets and critics discuss literature, race, politics, and the 1956 passport denial to...
E Iduma and Chike Edozien
The Nigerian authors meet to discuss their writing at the forefront of “Africa’s quiet...
Colman Domingo
Domingo stages a reading of the play, “DOT,” at the Museum of the African...
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...
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...
‘House of Lords and Commons’
Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with lyric precision,...
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...
Gunn’s ‘Ideas to Live For’
Giles Gunn asks how our sense of the human might be reconstructed, not around...
‘Intimacies of Continents’
Lisa Lowe reads across archives and literatures in Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas to connect...