I Found Myself: Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz, Author, Hisham Matar, Translator July 23, 2025 Here and Now “I Found Myself: Last Dreams confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz’s storytelling—”the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature” More
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary ideas by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o June 1, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Places/Review Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 1938-2025. The world lost a great man in Prof. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Thanks for the beautiful memories, with the More
A New New Me (A novel) by Helen Oyeyemi May 17, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review ABOUT A NEW NEW ME “From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird More
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri April 10, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review Summary: In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples More
Theft: A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) March 5, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review “In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.” Synopsis: More
Ballerina February 1, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/Places/Review by Patrick Modiano. Translated by Mark Polizzotti “A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and More
Mother River by Can Xue (Author), Karen Gernant (Translator), Chen Zeping (Translator) January 8, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/Review Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award: “If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag: More
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand December 6, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Inspirations/Music/On Trend/Review One of Literary Hub’s most anticipated books of 2024 Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped More
Miles Davis November 9, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Inspirations/Music/On Trend/Review Miles Davis: “Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world.’ More
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates October 5, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore More