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.
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…