NEWSWEEK [magazine]‘s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go home when protests in Cairo turned violent [when Mubarak's thugs attacked protesters]. About these ads
Gentrified Fiction
December 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
Image: Mustafah Abdulaziz I haven’t been satisfied by most contemporary novels, especially those set in very well-trodden territories like New York. Even the geography of these novels is limited, where all we see are small strips of that city … People talk about the crisis in the form of the novel, at least in England […]
On the Stories We Tell About Africa
June 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
‘… The problem isn’t really the stories that are being told or which stories are being told. The problem really is the terms of humanity that we’re willing to bring to complicate every story.’ A recent comment from reader Justin Kraus reminds me that I’ve been meaning to post this brilliant talk from Chris Abani. […]
“WHO IS JM COETZEE?”
November 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Gulf newspaper, The National, has a profile on “the South African giant of contemporary literature” JM Coetzee in which, unsurprisingly, other people does all the talking. It also rehashes all the familiar controversies of the last few years around the elusive Coetzee (his lack of overt political involvement during the struggle against Apartheid; the […]
VIDEO: CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE ON WRITING
October 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
