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...
Tracy Smith at Smithsonian
The Ingenuity Festival hosts a public dialogue on history and race with acclaimed US...
Submissions: Callaloo
Callaloo, a journal on original, creative and critical work by and from the African...
E Iduma and Chike Edozien
The Nigerian authors meet to discuss their writing at the forefront of “Africa’s quiet...
‘Ashe’ Book at Smithsonian
Biographer, Ray Arsenault, and sports journalist William Rhoden meet to discuss the tennis champion's...
Colman Domingo
Domingo stages a reading of the play, “DOT,” at the Museum of the African...
'The Foreigner’s Home'
The venue is a museum, the medium is film, the exploratory mode is that...
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...
‘Hidden Figures’
Margot Lee Shetterly brings into view the crucial role played by four African-American women...
‘Writing to Save a Life’
John Edgar Wideman searches in searing prose for Louis Till, father of Emmett Till,...