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‘Esperanza Spalding Selects’

‘Esperanza Spalding Selects’

Jazz bassist and songwriter, Esperanza Spalding offers her choices and contributions to the art-installation...

admin June 9, 2017

SZA’s ‘CTRL’

SZA’s debut album surpasses the highest of expectations, by bending and expanding contemporary R&B...

admin June 9, 2017
Alvin Ailey 2018 Tour Begins

Alvin Ailey 2018 Tour Begins

The renowned dance company has provided the year’s program for its world tour offering...

admin January 30, 2017
Translated: ‘El Conde de Montecristo'

Translated: ‘El Conde de Montecristo'

Navona has published a definitive Spanish translation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, The Count...

admin December 1, 2016
‘Hidden Figures’

‘Hidden Figures’

Margot Lee Shetterly brings into view the crucial role played by four African-American women...

admin December 1, 2016
‘Writing to Save a Life’

‘Writing to Save a Life’

John Edgar Wideman searches in searing prose for Louis Till, father of Emmett Till,...

admin November 30, 2016
‘House of Lords and Commons’

‘House of Lords and Commons’

Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with lyric precision,...

admin November 23, 2016
Rose-Innes’ ‘Nineveh’

Rose-Innes’ ‘Nineveh’

Henrietta Rose-Innes offers a “gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation” and a “wounded...

admin November 18, 2016
Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’

Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’

Zadie Smith presents a fluid meditation, via a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists,...

admin November 15, 2016
‘Black and British’

‘Black and British’

David Olusoga uncovers long, shared history between the British Isles and the people of...

admin November 13, 2016
‘Shakespeare in Swaziland’

‘Shakespeare in Swaziland’

Edward Wilson-Lee presents us with a vast tracing of Shakespeare as global poetry in...

admin March 10, 2016
Mufti’s ‘Forget English!’

Mufti’s ‘Forget English!’

Aamir Mufti scrutinizes world literature, arguing that in its borderless, global body of writings...

admin January 18, 2016
Gunn’s ‘Ideas to Live For’

Gunn’s ‘Ideas to Live For’

Giles Gunn asks how our sense of the human might be reconstructed, not around...

admin September 17, 2015
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