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Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Nicki Kattoura on Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims”

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2025

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

The Rules of the Game: How Genre Can Illuminate Theme

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on Crafting and Subverting Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | September 27, 2023

Midnight’s Children,
Forty Years Later"> Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of <em

Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of <em

Midnight’s Children,
Forty Years Later">

Midnight’s Children,
Forty Years Later">Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children,
Forty Years Later

“I wanted to write a novel of vaulting ambition, a high-wire act with no safety net, an all-or-nothing effort.”

By Salman Rushdie | April 14, 2021

The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

On Aphra Behn, Playwright and Punk-Poetess of the 17th Century

By Janet Todd | August 7, 2017

The View from Jamaica Kincaid's Antigua

The View from Jamaica Kincaid's Antigua

The New Yorker">From Princess Margaret School to the Pages of The New Yorker

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro | November 21, 2016

Is "Show Don't Tell" a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

Namrata Poddar on the Western Preference for Visual Over Oral Storytelling

By Namrata Poddar | September 20, 2016

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