Drawing inspiration from the writing of Lesley Nneka Arimah, Edwin Okolo creates a world of birth factories, colossal levees, secret labs, and New Biafra, where we find Ameli, Lotanna’s wife—bec…
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February 12, 2018Portrait of Buchi Emecheta by Val Wilmer from the cover of The Slave Girl (G. Braziller, 1977)Buchi Emecheta’s novella The Bride Price should play a larger role in world literatu…
November 9, 2016Emmanuel Iduma. Photo by Dawit L. PetrosEmmanuel Iduma’s The Sound of Things to Come was first published as Farad in Nigeria. Its unusual style and ambition instantly se…
April 22, 2016Photo: Comfreak/PixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsArchivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled Th…- September 19, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsIn one of the most controversial articles to circle the web recently, NPR writer and critic Juan Vidal wonders what has happened to political poets. (For…
- October 25, 2013After Alice Munro and Eleanor Catton were announced as the Nobel Prize and Man Booker Prize winners, respectively, new questions have arisen about women in publishing. In the links below, you’ll find…
May 7, 2013In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More o…
March 23, 2013Photo by Angela Radulescu/Flickr In tribute to Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who passed away this Thursday at the age of 82, we’ve opened the vault to share these compelling and inspiring…- February 22, 2013This week’s links are full of linguistic appeal—dig into our literary finds, including pieces on translation, multilingual education, and poetry.News, Reviews, and InterviewsStork Pre…
- February 8, 2013It’s been another great week of international literature filled with a variety of news from children’s books to Nigerian poetry, and we have some particularly fun literary finds this week including bo…
- September 21, 2012The Neustadt Festival begins next week! But while you're waiting for our coverage of the events, check out what happened this week around the world in literature news and events by clicking on the lin…
- July 20, 2012Welcome to the first Friday Link Pool post! Every week, this space will feature links from media sources around the web about recent literary news and events.News, Reviews, and…
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