Adelaide writers’ week was sacrificed to save the 2026 Adelaide festival, an event that ploughs more than $60m into South Australia’s economy each year, documents show. After the 8 January announcement by... Read more »
Actors Brian Cox, Miriam Margolyes and Tom Conti as well as the children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce are among those calling for the home of William Wordsworth to be saved as a site... Read more »
Samantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall from Baghdad back gardens. Yet when she asks for it in London’s Iraqi shops, she’s met only with blank... Read more »
The Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the “amputation” of Black British literature and queer history courses at Goldsmiths University in London, as part of a cost-cutting programme in which 130... Read more »
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time... Read more »
There are things you see, walking through the big cities of South Korea, that remind you of the recent but worlds-apart past. Venders of live cuttlefish and quilted hemp linens in the... Read more »
The citizens of Puerto Rico, reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, see something new under the sun: solar power, although not in the conventional sense of solar markets. Puerto... Read more »
As 2022 turned to 2023 with an arctic storm across the US, Vincent Lloyd and Benjamin Davis sat down to have a conversation about Lloyd’s new book, Black Dignity: The Struggle against... Read more »