Toni Morrison Passes
The doyenne of American fiction, letters, and culture, writer of several prize-winning novels, passed...
Rankine, Spahr On Dubois
Two poets and critics discuss literature, race, politics, and the 1956 passport denial to...
Translated: ‘El Conde de Montecristo'
Navona has published a definitive Spanish translation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, The Count...
‘Hidden Figures’
Margot Lee Shetterly brings into view the crucial role played by four African-American women...
‘Writing to Save a Life’
John Edgar Wideman searches in searing prose for Louis Till, father of Emmett Till,...
‘House of Lords and Commons’
Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with lyric precision,...
Rose-Innes’ ‘Nineveh’
Henrietta Rose-Innes offers a “gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation” and a “wounded...
Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’
Zadie Smith presents a fluid meditation, via a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists,...
‘Black and British’
David Olusoga uncovers long, shared history between the British Isles and the people of...
‘Shakespeare in Swaziland’
Edward Wilson-Lee presents us with a vast tracing of Shakespeare as global poetry in...
Mufti’s ‘Forget English!’
Aamir Mufti scrutinizes world literature, arguing that in its borderless, global body of writings...
Gunn’s ‘Ideas to Live For’
Giles Gunn asks how our sense of the human might be reconstructed, not around...
‘Intimacies of Continents’
Lisa Lowe reads across archives and literatures in Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas to connect...
‘Prose of the World’
Saikat Majumdar examines how the affective experience of colonialism shaped the aesthetics we now...
Hoyos’ ‘Beyond Bolaño’
Hector Hoyos challenges world literature as a homogenizing literary endeavor, focusing on how globalizing...
Spivak’s ‘Readings’
Gayatri Spivak elaborates a mode of attention to and analysis of literature, writing, society...