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Africa

‘I will always love Africa, because from the minute I arrived it treated me like a white girl.’—Author Adam Smyer reflects on his visit to the Open Book Festival

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The following is an edited excerpt from a work in progress by American author Adam Smyer, whose debut novel, Knucklehead,…

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Essays

‘Baldwin the symbol of black transgression and global black anger is simply peerless’—Bongani Madondo on If Beale Street Could Talk, the book and Oscar-winning film

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James Baldwin’s novel of half a century ago, If Beale Street Could Talk, now reissued by Penguin Random House, was…