At a time when many literary novels are becoming shorter and increasingly opaque, the luminous Dream Count – Adichie’s first ...

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An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even ...

Every December, greetings of Christmas, fill the air … Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! From greeting cards ...

An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.

The death of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in May 2025 closes a defining chapter in African literature. We revisit his role in the African literary revolution, decolonisation of language, exile, and global legacy ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Reading is very subjective, but one thing most book lovers can agree on is that 2025 was a notable year for fresh, inventive, affecting storytelling. Books tran ...

The Boston poet has long been recognized as the first person of African descent in North America to publish a book.

Fiction, non-fiction, hybrid works, poetry—2026 offers readers a rich array of choicesThese books are sure to spark essential conversations about our timeFiction that probes the heart of contemporary ...

How did one of history’s greatest Urdu poets become a philatelic icon? Syed Muhammad Naqavi traces his journey from a 1952 ...

When ‘Babu’ and ‘Da’ become national issues, the voice of a 22-year-old Aurobindo Ghosh from Baroda can still be heard above the political din in contemporary India. Writing a series of essays in 1893 ...