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4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens

  Peter Kimani, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways...

Rustin: Man behind March on Washington gets his due

Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin in “Rustin.” The cast of “Rustin” includes Glynn Turman as A. Phillip Randolph, Aml Ameen as Dr. Martin Luther...

Louise Glück honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave

by Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences When asked what her response was to being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature...

Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction

by Jessica Pressman, San Diego State University Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open....

Ada Limón is a poet laureate for the 21st century, exploring ‘what it looks like to have America in the room’

by Amy Cannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences “Ada Limón is a poet who connects.” This was how Librarian of Congress Carla...

Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature

by A.D. Carson, University of Virginia When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t...

These high school ‘classics’ have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

  High school students have studied many of the same books for generations. Is it time for a change? Andrew_Howe via Getty Images Andrew Newman, Stony Brook...

How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanity

by Alyssa Collins, University of South Carolina In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from The Huntington Library, Art Museum,...

What is Afrofuturism? An English professor explains

by Julian C. Chambliss, Michigan State University The new sci-fi musical “Neptune Frost,” set in a Rwandan village constructed with computer parts, tells the story...

How a Black writer in the 19th-century used humor to combat White supremacy

by Rodney Taylor, University of South Carolina Any writer has to struggle with the dilemma of staying true to their vision or giving editors and...

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