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Reviews

My Father’s Shadow

Colin Grant reviews Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr.’s quietly accomplished début feature My Father’s Shadow, which provides an elegiac interrogation of ruptured father-son relationships.

In Conversation

Dr Allen Zimbler: 'I'm here to learn and to observe and to just have the privileged of seeing a people who are somewhat different from us in so many ways.'

In conversation with John Siddique

The emerging writer on the book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the video game Undertale, listening to songs by Adrianne Lenker on trains, the privilege of hearing Molly Donnery perform live and The Birdcage by Mike Nichols as her favourite film.

Savannah Acquah’s cultural highlights

Amy Jackson’s cultural highlights

Edson Burton’s cultural highlights

Connor Allen’s cultural highlights

WritersMosaic Original Series

Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist

Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by the Afro-Caribbean writer Frantz Fanon are classics of anti-colonial literature. Ten writers here explore Fanon’s legacy, his radical work as a psychiatrist, his writing, and his commitment towards independence movements – all part of a remarkable life that came to an end when Fanon died from cancer aged just 36.

Edited by Colin Grant

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Editorial

by Colin Grant

From the individual to the collective

by Zebib K. Abraham

The person and the nation

by Taíno Mendez

Blida, Algeria, 1953

by Ekow Eshun

Writing the wound: politics, poetics, psychiatry

by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

The racial allocation of guilt (after Fanon)

by Roger Robinson

On entering the zone of being

by Chitra Ramaswamy

Brown skin, white mask

by Khaldoon Ahmed

Alternative destinies

by Isabelle Dupuy and Zoe Mohaupt

Inglan mad dem

by Colin Grant

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Inglan mad dem

A former medical student yearns to have been familiar with the writing of Frantz Fanon who might have acted as a guide during his years of studies.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

3 mins

Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

3 mins

Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

WritersMosaic Original Series

Fiction Prescriptions

Great novels offer insights into the human condition but can they also be tools for living? Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy provide bibliotherapy in our new podcast series. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from novels, poetry and prose collections.

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New Year’s resolutions

by Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy

Love

by Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy

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Love

What’s the importance of love in relationships? Is it overrated? How does it survive displacement? How is it lost or found? Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy dive into novels and offer literary prescriptions.

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