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Published in: Home: FeatureNo, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane AustenIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian prison literature and human rights: an interview with Shareah TaleghaniLiterature about prison has actually assisted international campaigns in the release of individual detainees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTo become a bit more human: Review of Belén Fernández, “Letter from Iran”In “Letter from Iran” Belén Fernández reminds us that we—people everywhere—are not Washington cyphers but...
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Published in: HomeBob Dylan: a conversationMany celebrations of the great American musician Bob Dylan involve a personal journey through the archives of...
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Published in: HomeBob Dylan: revolution in the head, revisited
The most influential and original musician of the 1960s generation remains a figure of protean creativity half a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGhassan’s memoriesKanafani can make you dream of a free Palestine in a multitude of ways. A Palestine freed through writing, through...
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Published in: HomeDoris Lessing: writing against and for
The Nobel literature award honours an eternal outsider whose critical distance from orthodoxy fuels her work's...
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Published in: HomeDoris Lessing: the Sufi connection
The Nobel literature laureate is a seeker and educator in mysticism who uses Sufi ideas to enlarge her and her...
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Published in: TransformationLiterature, empathy and the moral imaginationGreat works of literature are often love-letters to the form itself, but moral philosophy has rarely taken...
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Published in: TransformationHow children's books can transform the worldPolitical children's literature has always existed. Clementine Beauvais reads three children's stories about the...
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Published in: HomeAimé Césaire: poetry as weapon
The passionate, lyrical voice of the poet from Martinique was part of a lifework that embraces négritude, Marxism...
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Published in: oDRSuffer the little children…A new Russian law banning US adoptions has been roundly criticised at home and abroad; a toddler’s unexplained death...
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Published in: HomeMo Yan's Nobel, an ideal betrayed
The Swedish Academy's award of the Nobel literature prize to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan violates the principles of...
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Published in: HomeMo Yan and China's prize
The award of the Nobel literature prize to a Chinese writer favoured by the authorities provoked disputes both on...
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Published in: HomeA Singapore Ramayana: academic freedom and the liberal arts curriculum
Could Singaporeans of the future do a better job at making democracy a reality than America’s elected leaders have...
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Published in: HomeDerick Thomson at 90: Gaelic poet in the world
Ruaraidh MacThòmais (Derick Thomson) has as poet, scholar, teacher and editor made a profound contribution to Gaelic...
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Published in: oDRThe geometry and arithmetic of exile: a Russian writer’s view
What happens to a writer when he is no longer surrounded by his own language and reality? Emigres, exiles use a kind...
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Published in: oDRVoznesensky: elegy for a fashionable poetThe poet Andrei Voznesensky died on 1 June. One of the former “big 4” Soviet poets, he managed to hang on to his...
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Published in: oDRLev Tolstoy: world literature’s first pop starRelief at being freed from the deadening Soviet tradition of grandiose literary anniversaries, and socialist...
