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.
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…
Lyndsey Stonebridge, ‘The Times of Rights and Writing’, a talk given at the Oxford Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar on 4 May 2021.
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…
A video interview with Amit Chaudhuri about Literary Activism, recorded on 26 February 2021.
Excerpts from the mission statements for Literary Activism events.
In this e-mail interview with C. S. Bhagya, Monica Ali gets candid about the language games in her work, the women who populate her narratives, and what compels her to return to writing novels.