Bear with me, because there is some backstory to get through before we can talk about the book I am actually here to review. Back in 1984, Stephen King and Peter Straub... Read more »
“Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental,” writes the multi-award winning Jamaican-American poet, essayist and playwright Claudia Rankine in the disclaimer to her latest work. “Unless... Read more »
The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found. The Crown’s... Read more »
Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the... Read more »
British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this yearâs Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for his second novel Small Worlds, which judges described as âsymphonicâ and âviscerally movingâ. Azumah Nelson, 30, was... Read more »
In recent years, ad hoc efforts to move people and abortion supplies on the down-low have earned comparison to the Underground Railroad, the loose activist network that helped enslaved people flee slave... Read more »