In this audio interview Indian writer and poet NABARUN BHATTACHARYA discusses politics, poverty and keeping an open mind. …

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Human rights campaigner and lawyer RAJA SHEHADEH follows the contour lines, political and geographic, of the West Bank of Palestine. …

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A moment of violence leads to an extraordinary transformation Multicoloured Seams, a short story by EDWIN JAMIESON. …

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In this recreation of Genesis, Zimbabwean writer CHRISTOPHER MLALAZI describes man’s fiery descent from the stars. …

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SELINA HOSSAIN is one of Bangladesh’s most prolific and vocal writers. In this short audio interview she outlines her social activist credentials. …

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Audio interview with NABANEETA DEV SEN, one of India’s leading writers and thinkers. …

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The almost simultaneous appearance of a doppelganger and a voice in his head is the end of enough for RAJORSHI CHAKRABORTI’s put-upon young narrator. …

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The shape of the wind and the absence of tears are part of the texture of life in this short story by CATHERINE MCDONALD. …

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A short story by SVETLANA LAVOCHKINA in which an irascible and foul-mouthed old woman dramatically confronts her enemies with fatal consequences. …

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Honour without profit is nothing new for writers, as Gillian Hughes shows in her illuminating biography of JAMES HOGG. …

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Poet, patriot, soldier, interrogator, scholar, teacher and folklorist – HAMISH HENDERSON had ‘many lives’. Michael Lister reviews a biography by TIMOTHY NEAT. …

More…A Saintly Sorner?

There are plans to bring more of the wonderful poetry of TONY MCMANUS into print. In this audio interview, his niece, actress CATHERINE MURRAY, reads one of his poems and discusses the significance of his work. …

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Short story by HESTER ROSS in which images of life in Malawi and Ireland interpenetrate, a woman confronts her mortality and plants for a future she may not see. …

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The 2007 Nigeria Prize for Literature was jointly won by Akachi Ezeigbo and Mabel Segun. AKACHI EZEIGBO heard the news shortly after her return from a sabbatical as a visiting research fellow at Royal Holloway University, London. She lectures in Gender Studies at the University of Lagos. …

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The peculiar lives of a serial killer and his feline girlfriend feature in this extract from Derangements by RAJORSHI CHAKRABORTI. …

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