September 24, 2013
Starting next year, the Man Booker Prize will be open to any work written in English & published in the U.K. — but what if it was that way for the last decade?
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Starting next year, the Man Booker Prize will be open to any work written in English & published in the U.K. — but what if it was that way for the last decade?
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A Polaroid from a Brooklyn flea market, an old print found in a library book — what makes these photographs, once found, worth holding on to?
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back, and we're discussing what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry: Chinelo Okparanta's "America."
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back and, as we did last year, we’ll be joining Aaron Bady’s community to discuss what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry comes from Nigeria: Elnathan John’s “Bayan Layi.”
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back and, as we did last year, we’ll be joining Aaron Bady’s community to discuss what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry comes from Nigeria: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's “The Whispering Trees.”
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back and, as we did last year, we’ll be joining Aaron Bady’s community to discuss what makes the five finalists tick. This year, however, I’ll be taking a close look at each story’s prehistory, from its influences to its allusions. This week’s entry comes from Sierra Leone: Pede Hollist’s “Foreign Aid.”
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is back and, as we did last year, we’ll be joining Aaron Bady’s community to discuss what makes the five finalists tick. This week’s entry comes from Nigeria: Tope Folarin’s simultaneously credulous and incredulous “Miracle.”
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April is National Poetry Month, and you know what that means: more poetry readings in a single month than the entire rest of the year. But who's reading those bits of verse?
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April is National Poetry Month, and so books of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost (not to mention D.A. Powell and John Ashbery) are doing brisk sales. But, as spoken-word poetry slams remind us, verse hasn't always been confined to the page. Here's a few other places to find poetry today.
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Upon the re-publication of Renata Adler's brilliant novel-in-fragments Pitch Dark, we've been compelled to ask: Why write a novel in bits and pieces? What can facts and fragments tell us that a linear narrative couldn't?
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