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The Life, Writing & Legacy of James Baldwin
Celebrations of the centenary of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, have continued at the Cambridge Literary Festival. Erica Wagner chaired a panel focusing on works such as No Name in the Street and Giovanni's Room.
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Emily Zobel Marshall’s cultural highlights
The writer on Bharti Kher’s Alchemies in Yorkshire, Indo-Trinidadian love stories, Baldwin's defiance, death at Carnival in Trinidad and a true story of Syrian sister Olympic swimmers
What We Leave We Carry
Tulela Pea
The Namibian forensic psychologist Tulela Pea turns a critical eye on the credits and deficits of life in the UK.
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A strategic retreat
Edited by Colin Grant
Six writers recall the experience of the first WritersMosaic retreat at Villa Lugara, in partnership with the Hawthornden Foundation
Small Things Like These
"A work of quiet genius": Roger Robinson praises the film adaptation of Small Things Like These
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Steve McQueen depicts the Luftwaffe’s bombing of London from the perspective of a mixed race child protagonist
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Clementine E Burnley wins James Berry Poetry Prize
Clementine E Burnley is one of the winners of this year's James Berry Poetry Prize. Here Clementine reads from 'Berber for Water', from her first pamphlet Radical Pairings which was published by Ignition Press in 2023.
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Alford Dalrymple Gardner: remembered
Alford Dalrymple Gardner, a Windrush generation pioneer, died last week. In 2023, he visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his memoir, Finding Home, with his son, Howard, Lisa Williams and Colin Grant. This film is courtesy of the EIBF archive.
Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside
WritersMosaic explores questions of migrants' and their descendants' relationship with the British countryside.
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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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