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Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson review – dancing in Peckham
A teenage love story develops into an affecting meditation on the migrant experience in the follow-up to Open Water
Colin Grant
03, May, 2023 @8:51 AM
Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – 50 years of rhyme and rage
The poet’s collection of essays, an archive of social and racial flashpoints, pay tribute to the Caribbean artists whose radicalism shaped his verse
Colin Grant
09, Apr, 2023 @10:00 AM
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks review – gangsters, ghosts and raw pleasure
This impressive debut about a young woman’s journey through 1970s London and Bristol to the mystical rituals of Jamaica has been longlisted for the Women’s prize
Colin Grant
16, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
White Riot by Joe Thomas review – racial tensions in Thatcher’s Britain
Drawing on archive material, this propulsive crime novel explores police violence and unsolved killings in a fracturing nation
Colin Grant
13, Jan, 2023 @9:00 AM
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death review – humility lessons from Henry Marsh
The ever candid neurosurgeon reflects on his own mortality, as well as the failings of his profession, in this enthralling third volume of memoirs
Colin Grant
29, Aug, 2022 @6:00 AM
‘The story enraged me’ – US artist Deborah Roberts on her Child Q collage
She used to work in a shoe-shop but her work now sells for huge sums and is collected by big museums and Beyoncé. The African American explains why she tackled the shocking strip-search of a 15-year-old girl in a London school
Colin Grant
07, Jun, 2022 @1:47 PM
John Akomfrah on Stuart Hall: ‘When I first read him, I thought he was white’
The artist is revisiting his three-screen film about the legendary thinker and activist, which takes in jazz, Vietnam, and the family trauma that haunted Hall
Colin Grant
16, May, 2022 @11:55 AM
An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie review – an impressive debut
A young man struggles to escape a life of violent crime in this gritty fable about love, faith and redemption
Colin Grant
23, Apr, 2022 @6:30 AM
You Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston review – fearless and dazzling essays
The pioneering African American writer’s nonfiction pieces have a power, depth and courage that still resonate more than 60 years after her death
Colin Grant
27, Feb, 2022 @1:00 PM
The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers review – desires of the downtrodden
The poet’s debut novel effortlessly evokes the dilemmas of African Americans as they struggle for advancement
Colin Grant
17, Jan, 2022 @7:00 AM
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson review – an American tragedy
Set in the near future, this riveting debut explores racist violence and the weight of the past
Colin Grant
16, Dec, 2021 @9:00 AM
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead review – a zinging wiseguy noir thriller
A small-time crook in 1960s Harlem becomes embroiled in a heist as the double Pulitzer prize-winner confounds expectations once more
Colin Grant
06, Sep, 2021 @6:00 AM
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