On Family and Flèche: Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan Read at Kellogg College Ann Ang 19 May 2022 – an appreciative audience was treated to a lively reading from poets TheophilusRead More…
Intimacies: On Tice Cin’s Keeping the House and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water Eileen Ying Tice Cin and Caleb Azumah Nelson arrived for a reading at Oxford’s Daunt Books on a characteristicallyRead More…
Grieving, Loving: On bell hooks Eileen Ying Lover, thinker, dreamer; razor-edged critic and open-armed activist; radical, riotous Black feminist with a penchant for leaving a room fuller than it began – bellRead More…
Close reading of Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s Writing the Camp Serena Alagappan Yousif Qasmiyeh shatters and reconstructs a traditional conception of time in order to understand how time enigmatically exists in the BaddawiRead 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…
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…