Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’ | Books

Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’ | Books

My earliest reading memory When I was about four or five, I think. I was living in Long Melford, Suffolk, with my foster parents, and my foster dad was trying to teach... Read more »
Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read | Books

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read | Books

The banning of books, it would be easy to think, is a relic of less enlightened ages. The Catholic church, in a last spasm of rectitude, added Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Moravia and Simone... Read more »
‘I didn’t want to fit in a box of what an Aboriginal person should write’: how Alexis Wright found her voice | Fiction

‘I didn’t want to fit in a box of what an Aboriginal person should write’: how Alexis Wright found her voice | Fiction

On the day she decided she had finally finished Praiseworthy, after almost a decade of writing and rewriting until she was happy with every one of its 700-odd pages, Alexis Wright went... Read more »
Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read | Books

“The World Didn’t Give It, but the World Can’t Take It Away”: Talking Black Joy and Black Freedom with Blair LM Kelley

In his 1925 essay “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” Arturo Schomburg writes, “There is the definite desire and determination to have a history, well documented, widely known at least within race... Read more »
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