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Martyr!  is the debut novel by Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar and was one of last year’s buzzier books. I’m always curious about...

It is May, still spring, I‘m sure, and I am ready to discuss the third instalment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet. This week, we have...

Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal have been best friends since their adventures during World War II, though none of their friends and family...

In 1959, when Eva Hoffman was just 13 years old, her family decided to turn their back on the prevalent anti-Semitism in Poland and...

What does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...

The family Gifty remembers from early childhood is a family of four, that quickly became a family of three and way too soon was cut into...

Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...

Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

English version below Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus è ambientato in un piccolo paese della Sardegna contadina, dimenticata e isolata....

After loving Half of a Yellow Sun, I was eager to read more of this wonderful, intelligent woman who made me fall in love with Nigeria...