For all the wrong reasons, Damien Hirst’s Shark (The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living) has a claim to being the most prescient British artwork of the last... Read more »
A Tennessee school district has banned Roots, the author Alex Haley’s groundbreaking novel and one of the most renowned and influential works about the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Knox county... Read more »
Alex Kadis establishes a jaunty tone from the very first pages of her debut about Connie Costa, a music-loving teenager stuck at home in east London in the mid-1970s, longing to break free from... Read more »
British writer Alex Wheatle, the author of books including East of Acre Lane and the Crongton series, has died aged 62. “It is with great sadness to inform you that Alex Wheatle,... Read more »