Poet and author spent nine years writing ‘The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois’, which has been praised by the likes of Pultizer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker. The National, January 2022 When Honoree Fanonne Jeffers […]
The National, January 2021. The Kolkata-born author set out to write a book that grapples with the big issues while still being a fun read, and has succeeded. When tragedy strikes in Megha Majumdar’s brilliant […]
The National, November 2020. When the end of the world as we know it comes about in Rumaan Alam’s gripping third novel, Leave the World Behind, the two families brought together in the indulgent surroundings of […]
‘Colonialism obviously transformed everything, and in that process you can find good aspects,’ says Gurnah. The National, September 2020 When Abdulrazak Gurnah was growing up in 1950s Zanzibar, he was told stories of the First […]
The British author tells us why he chose the fearless Persis Wadia as his heroine. The National, August 2020 Last year British crime writer Vaseem Khan was deep into another one of his enjoyably twisty narratives when […]