Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a growing debate has emerged over the cultural and ...

Paul Tenngart's book explores the Nobel Prize in Literature's influence on global literary canon, highlighting biases and the ...

The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art.

No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genres as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.

British writer Bernardine Evaristo has won the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her “transformative impact on literature.” ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o can easily be called the Chinua Achebe of Eastern Africa or Shakespeare of the same, but with less ...

Does book slang have ... across all kinds of literary slang, puns and acronyms that had you scratching your head and feeling out of the loop. Readers often use specific terms as a shorthand ...

Why is Kenya, a small country, so well known across the globe? Is it because of our world-class runners who dominate ...

In a literary landscape often dominated by narratives from elsewhere, Mai Al-Nakib has emerged as a distinctly original and resonant voice from the Gulf. A Kuwaiti writer and academic, Al-Nakib ...

Over hummus and wine at Balaboosta in the West Village, a dozen members of Lit Club debate what Jewish identity looks like ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. More than 16 years after Melbourne-based Nam Le burst onto Australia’s literary scene to critical acclaim and a slew of prizes ...