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literatureA journey through popular and ancient literature, from all corners of the globe.
A lively London market offers a fresh view of the old story of England as a "heritage in danger"
A passionate, lyrical voice that embraced négritude, Marxism and surrealism is stilled
The shift from polymath to expert has diminished, but not withered, the garden of knowledge
Mai Ghoussoub explores the power of a prize-winning image of war-torn Beirut (archive)
France's pioneering feminist still shines on her centenary (archive)
A great English artist born 250 years ago fused empathy,
anger and love
Pippi
Longstocking's creator wrote for children and fought for justice
A combative literary persona was forged in the
symbolism of the ring
The Nobel literature award honours an eternal
outsider
The Nobel laureate is a seeker and educator in
mysticism as well as a great novelist
The words of the fearless journalist murdered a year ago still burn (archive)
In an old civilisation's millennium, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's voice will be heard (archive)
The Geneva conventions began 143 years ago. Today, sophistry endangers the rights they protect (archive)
The author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses deserves his knighthood
Kurt Vonnegut worked through despair to infect a generation of Americans with humanity, says Christopher Bigsby. Read the rest of this post...
Teza the singer is in solitary confinement. A political prisoner of the Burmese junta, his world is now his cage. Read an excerpt from Karen Connelly's powerful novel of humanity, shame and survival. Read the rest of this post...
"Misunderstanding. Free world. Dilemma." A foreigner's first time in London, the dictionary holds all the answers. Read an extract from Xiaolu Guo's first novel written directly in English– a study of language lost and found. Read the rest of this post...
The first of two short-story selections from a new anthology on literature from the "axis of evil". The tale of a dictatorial Iranian school teacher is a sweeping satire of censorship and free speech. Read the rest of this post...
The second of two short-story selections from a new anthology on literature from the "axis of evil". The bittersweet tale of two Korean brothers living in Japan after the Korean war. Read the rest of this post...
Zora Neale Hurston's tale of oppression, morality and sexual power in the rural American south of the 1920s. Read the rest of this post...
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