What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

What Writers in the Diaspora Miss About the Plurality of African Literature

Itoro Bassey on How We Write About Africa

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How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade

How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade

“It was clear to African populations that self-reliance was the only way to survive predatory imperial states.”

By Sudhir Hazareesingh | December 5, 2025

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror

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By Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse | December 5, 2025

Give Me Independence: On 1776, the Pivotal Year For What Would Become America

Give Me Independence: On 1776, the Pivotal Year For What Would Become America

Edward J. Larson Considers the Impact and Legacy of the American Revolutionary Cause

By Edward J. Larson | December 5, 2025

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching <em>Survivor</em>

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching Survivor

“As a writer, you cannot and should not shield your characters from being seen in all their messy glory.”

By Sophie Newman | December 5, 2025

Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis

Life-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in Crisis

Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini Discuss the Landscape of British Publishing with Jack Thompson, Jess Chandler, Sam Fisher and Kristen Vida Alfaro

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A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia

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Rinaldo Walcott Explores the Concepts of Power, Connection and Promise in Black Music

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Sven Beckert on the Global History of Capitalism

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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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The Radical Write: How a Medieval Catholic Mystic Inspired My Debut Novel

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Janet Rich Edwards on Marguerite Porete and the Power of Unconventional Faith

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How It Feels to Watch a Civil War Unfold From the Comfort of Your Living Room

How It Feels to Watch a Civil War Unfold From the Comfort of Your Living Room

Tareq Baconi on the Experience of Repeated Exile For His Palestinian Refugee Family

By Tareq Baconi | December 3, 2025

Stravinsky in the Desert: Playing Piano Under Big West Texas Skies

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Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy on Their Site-Specific Concerts in Marfa

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“they descend upon us,” a Poem by Selma Asotić

“they descend upon us,” a Poem by Selma Asotić

From the author of Say Fire

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