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The Old Drift: A Novel
An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn’t know you were waiting for <P><P>On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Furrows: A Novel
How do you grieve an absence? From the award-winning author of The Old Drift, &“a piercing, sharply written novel about the conjuring power of loss&” (Raven Leilani, author of Luster).&“A genuine tour de force . . . What seems at first a meditation on family trauma unfolds through the urgency of an ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Seven Modes of Uncertainty
Literature is rife with uncertainty. Literature is good for us. These two ideas about reading literature are often taken for granted. But what is the relationship between literature's capacity to unsettle, perplex, and bewilder us, and literature's ethical value? To revive this question, C. Namw... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Devil on the Cross
The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s powerful fictional critique of capitalismOne of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngũgĩ was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015
Now in its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection collects the five 2015 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)
by Barbara Cassin • Jill Lepore • Judith Butler • Kieran Setiya • Fred Turner • Jan Mieszkowski • Jeremy Adelman • Haruo Shirane • Anne E. Fernald • Matthew Engelke • Imani Perry • James Vernon • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Kim Phillips-Fein • Philip Gorski • Frances Negrón-Muntaner • Namwali Serpell • Shannon Mattern • Karen Dunak • John Plotz • Daegan Miller • Christopher Schaberg • Lilly Irani • Joseph Jonghyun Jeon • Suzy Hansen • Max Holleran • Mark McGurl • Stacey Balkan • Nathan Connolly • Najwa Al-Qattan • Destin Jenkins • Andrew Perrin • Lynn French • Salamishah Tillet • Matthew Clair • Ursula K. Guin • Eli Rosenblatt • Rebecca Falkoff • Karl Ashoka Britto • Marah Gubar • Tess McNulty • Nicholas Dames • John R. McNeillSince 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019