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Another self-destructive exercise in self-censure? Stanely Mushava gives the impression that Zimbabwe is the yet to be discovered African paradise. Oh, poor Africa, always misunderstood and misrepresented by the West. Ach, ach. He writes: “WE NEED NEW NAMES”, NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, which was recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, excited more international acclaim than any Zimbabwean...

Mukoma Wa Ngugi teaches at Cornell University and author of Black Star Nairobi, October 2013 An African literary canon is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because standing on the shoulders of writers such as Chinua Achebe, author of the archetypal African novel Things Fall Apart , and my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, I do not have to prove to myself or to the world that Africans can produce culture...

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Great words. Derek Walcott and Paul Muldoon are still the ones I read most. I have since discovered Ian Duhig, Rachel Boast, Joel Toledo, Gen Asenjo, Gihan Omar, Rethabile Masilo, Lisa Combrinck, Chiedu Ezeanah, Niran Okewole, Biyi Olusolape, Michelle McGrane, Gebinyo Ogbowei and Amatoritsero Ede. There is a special poet who takes an opposite approach to my own who I really admire, Afam Akeh. Indeed,...

Insightful, Insightful "Memory is not always friendly. I carry my immigrant travel guilt with me always – not in any disabling way, but in the sense that I am frequently reminded of it by daily encounters.  I am acutely aware that I am not alone in these paths taken, but have also committed my children and possibly their children. I frequently consider the consequences and possibilities, positives...

Yesterday we showed you David Gilmour , the University of Toronto English professor who told a female reporter that he is "not interested in teaching books by women." "What I teach is guys," Gilmour continued. "Serious heterosexual guys." Gilmour probably thought he sounded very serious and heterosexual while making this bold declaration—a real Ruff Ryder. Unfortunately,...

The Man Booker Prize will be open next year to all fiction writers in the language called "English," even those from nations that forcibly unyoked ourselves from the Queen's jurisdiction. Power grab or final capitulation of failed empire? Either way, tough break for Hilary Mantel, up against Jennifer Weiner from now on. Read more... ...

James Eze has a good review of NoViolet Bulawayo's novel. There are some writers for whom storytelling seems almost effortless. NoViolet Bulawayo is one of them. We first encountered her in her Caine Prize winning short story, Hitting Budapest , an amazing tale of dispossession and longing, told through the eyes of six Zimbabwean children brought together by internal dislocation and grinding poverty....

Slouchy philanderer Kristen Stewart is about to take on her most challenging role yet: college freshman. Read more... ...

m a Nigerian author/writer/history undergrad. My first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, will be published by Faber and Faber in March 2012 by God's grace. Hopefully this year you'll see me in shops. Hopefully you'll buy my book. Hopefully I won...

s art! New York photographer Clayton Cubitt's " Hysterical Literature " web series features ladies reading erotica at a clean white table beneath which, as he put it to Slate, " messy, human, primal, animal things, unfit for public presentation to decent moral people " are going on. It...

The intellectual Man-Child, a species all too familiar to those who work in publishing, study the humanities, or frequent literary panels and their (often more taxing) after parties, is that "nice guy from your grad-school program who tries to cover up his hurt feelings by concocting a general theory that explains why he never got a text after his one-night stand." Was reading that sentence...

Among the many things I wasn’t prepared for after publishing my first novel at the age of 52 was the question I’m asked most often. I’ve heard it at book tour events in England, Germany, and here in the United States. The wording and language vary, but the gist of the question is the same: “Aren’t you too old for this?” I love this line: "I had crossed a threshold, too old to imitate anyone." ENJOY...

How did Dan Brown, the immensely popular and successful bad writer behind such hits as The Da Vinci Code and Hey, There's a Treasure Map Under This Painting! , get to be such an immensely popular and successful bad writer? He just loves "reading," meaning "listening to stuff." Read more... ...

We can and will stipulate first of all that Tao Lin is an overbearing self-publicist with a literary career attached, and that he is given to extremely irritating poses . This, however, tells us nothing about whether or not Tao Lin, as a novelist, has any artistic merit; there have been, historically, plenty of serious and important writers among the ranks of overbearing self-publicists, and plenty...

Adjusting to adolescent life in the US inevitably brings cultural collisions and awakenings, including a palpable loss of innocence when she is drawn into watching unspeakable internet porn. At points, the story could be read as a case-study in alienation and assimilation. Nevertheless, most affecting of all is the early intimate depiction of Darling and her sub-teen gang, with their speaking eyes...

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Congratulations! The Award Winner of 2013 The International Literature Award – Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2013 goes to the Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole for his novel Open City (Suhrkamp 2012) and to Christine Richter-Nilsson for the book’s first translation into German. ENJOY ...