1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (826+ words) An affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer Reza was bound to provoke condemnation in conservative Northern Nigeria. This story of love and longing - set against undercurrents of political violence - unfurls gently, revealing layers of emotion that…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (531+ words) by Salmah Oiza Salam by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh One of the highlights of my time in Berlin, this past month, was sharing the stage with Ben Okri for a conversation about books and the power of the imagination. Ben and…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (511+ words) by Emmanuel O. Afolabi by Praise Okeoghene Vandeh One of the highlights of my time in Berlin was sharing the stage with Ben Okri for a conversation that turned into a reading list. Ben and I decided that our session would…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (737+ words) Are you writing about your life in your own way? Or are you merely borrowing the very strings that tie you to society’s expectations? Through Tokyo’s gauzy midnight light, Mieko Kawakami’s All the Lovers in the Night captures the stillness…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (396+ words) New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) Diplomat-poet Abhay K captures the literary, cultural, mythical, and historical diversity of the African continent in his latest poetry collection, with each poem paying tribute to a land that has witnessed the dawn of humanity. “The…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (255+ words) The Paris Review was partly a CIA front, and one of its founders led a double life to match. In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen reviews a new biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, nature writer, and CIA…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (115+ words) This Is Not My Timeline" by J.R. Dawson "The Perpetual Post" by Isabel J. Kim Found in Translation is a bimonthly column reviewing books translated to English in a variety of speculative shapes. Some traditional, some experimental, some told through cultural narratives…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (303+ words) July 5, 2026 by Our Reporter The Fire Within by Touhfat Mouhtare from Comoros Island is the story of the surprising coming-of age of a Comorian servant girl who, from the start, is like no one else in her tropical island community....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (777+ words) Every year on 16 June, readers around the world celebrate Bloomsday, the annual commemoration of Irish writer James Joyce’s landmark 1922 novel Ulysses. The date marks the single day on which the novel unfolds: 16 June 1904, when its protagonist, Leopold Bloom, wanders through…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) The Architecture of Silence and Administrative Violence The protagonist’s journey is a painful exploration of Digital Erasure. In a highly connected, modern public sector, truth becomes a nuisance to the status quo. Taiwo’s struggle is not just to solve a…...