ISSARIYA MORGAN celebrates Rumi, the thirteenth century Persian poet and Sufi master. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet..
LAITH CAHILL uncovers the relationship between language and migration at the Jewish Book Week Cultural Festival. One morning in Prague, the young Elena Lappin was..
ALI ADENWALA explores the intersections of queer and Arab identities in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa. The Western vision of the queer Arab is undeniably bleak. Most..
SHALAKA BAPAT celebrates the democracy of ideas at Jaipur Literature Festival. Through the dusty streets of the Pink City emerge ancient palaces and city gates...
LAITH CAHILL explores imperialism, inebriation and real tennis in Álvaro Enrique’s Sudden Death. ‘The poet put all the force he could into the serve. The..
ABI PILLAI celebrates Zadie Smith’s flair for honesty in her new novel Swing Time. In accordance with its title, Zadie Smith’s new novel swings through time..
JESSICA BEASLEY considers ‘hygge’ and the Yuletide legacy of Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol. Unless you have decided to boycott bookshops this winter, almost undoubtedly..
BEA BOWLES-BRAY explores how fear drives separatism in Kajsa Norman’s Bridge Over Blood River. ‘We shall build the society in which all South Africans, both..
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TICE CIN investigates how politics overshadows plaudits for the 2016 Man Booker prize winner, Paul Beatty. What if you realise that everything you think you..
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