Nora Jemisin: “I would love to just write and not have everything turned into a political battle”
The Hugo award-winning science fiction author discusses writing, race and diversity in publishing.
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Why Richard T Kelly’s The Knives is such a painful read
It is well known that Stendhal compared politics in a novel to a gunshot in the middle of a concert – this novel…
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How Serious Sweet upends our assumptions about love – and politics
A L Kennedy’s satire on Whitehall has moments which fire like gunshots across the page. A shame, then, that other…
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History without reservations: unpicking the myths about Native Americans
I grew up in New York City and had what most people would consider an exceptionally liberal education: yet it…
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Why Teju Cole proves the 21st-century essay is in fine fettle
Cole’s collected essays, Known and Stranger Things, combines good writing with emotion and intellect.
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The ambiguous heroism of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther
Coates draws on a rich, modern African-American mythology to turn T’Challa into the Black Panther: Marvel’s African superhero.
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Fight the power
K Biswas learns a new lexicon of protest with Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
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Man in a box
James Medd luxuriates in Clive James’s TV criticism.
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