The National, May 2018 Hanan Al-Shaykh couldn’t hold back. On one of her regular walks around London, the bestselling Lebanese author came across a preacher at the famous Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, arguing with […]
The National, May 2018 When Philip Roth, who died yesterday, was pondering his life as the 85-year-old elder statesman of American literature earlier this year, he told The New York Times that it was a […]
The National, May 2018 She calls it “reversing the gaze”. After a lifetime reading books or watching films set in African countries but written by westerners – “the white man usually has a hard time […]
The National, April 2018 Growing up in London, Nikesh Shukla would come home from his predominantly white school with small tales of everyday racism. If he expected sympathy from his father though, it was in […]
The National, March 2018 In a high-profile television interview at the weekend, Sean Penn invited CBS News into his home, told them he didn’t really enjoy acting anymore and began trying to sell his debut novel […]