C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened byRead More…
Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (AberystwythRead More…
Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona TolanRead More…
Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona Tolan (Liverpool John Moores University). TheRead More…
Jackie Kay: Identity, Secrecy, and Love C. J. Griffin SOMEBODY ELSE If I was not myself, I would be somebody else.But actually I am somebody else.I have been somebody else all myRead More…
Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature Laya SoleymanzadehPhD, English Literature, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate of 2021, was born in Zanzibar, on aRead More…
Close reading of Nikesh Shukla’s Brown Baby Moneeka Thakur ‘The freezer is empty. There is nothing there. A bag of frozen peas, frosted over with age. There are two old clear plasticRead More…
Kayo Chingonyi on Nation, Blood, and Poetic Form Interview by Chelsea Haith In his second collection, A Blood Condition (2021), Kayo Chingonyi presents a voice wise and weary beyond his years. NominatedRead More…
Keeping Count, Settling Scores: Diversity in British Education Today Eileen Ying This June, publishing colossus Penguin Books released a series of bleak findings on British literary curricula. Less than one percent ofRead More…
On 24 June 2021, Benjamin Zephaniah was in conversation with the writer and editor Malachi McIntosh at the Story Museum in Oxford.