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…
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…
An analysis of Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise Gavin Herbertson Robinson’s work has always tackled subject-matter and themes which many would consider controversial and has drawn in a diverse array of sourcesRead More…
Family Matters: A Review of Klara and the Sun Eileen Ying The first forty pages of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun take place entirely within the narrow enclosure of a storefront.Read More…
Excerpts from the mission statements for Literary Activism events.
Close reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane C. S. Bhagya Brick Lane is a novel whose events span decades and wide geographical distances. The narrative focus shifts from Mymensingh District, East PakistanRead More…
Close reading of Inua Ellams’s ‘Fuck / Tupac’ from The Actual Chelsea Haith In this short essay we take a closer look at how Ellams’s verse integrates contemporary cultural references and largerRead More…
Essay extract from ‘Natives: Autobiography and Anti-Racism After Empire’ Dominic Davies For the historian of Black Britain, David Olusoga, Akala’s Natives is not “an easy book to categorise”: “It has been describedRead More…
A personal response to Afropean by a classical archaeologist Lucia Nixon, Wolfson College, Oxford As a classical archaeologist, I take a long view of ‘Europe’. In Afropean, Johny Pitts visits seven countries.Read More…