Reading the present as history
In his debut novel, Thaer Husien remixes genre and takes readers on a psychedelic ride through a dystopian yet disturbingly familiar future Palestine.
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Londiwe Gamedze
Londiwe Gamedze writes about African and Black American literature and political history. She is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley and writing her dissertation on political attitudes in the novels of Miriam Tlali, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer.
Writing while black
The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.