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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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"Writing is a radical act of self-love, a transformative space where the intermingling of my lived experiences and my wild imagination produces worlds that beat from the fringes into the centre."

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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.

Guest Edition

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

Blitz

Steve McQueen depicts the Luftwaffe’s bombing of London from the perspective of a mixed race child protagonist

Close Up

Devotion

An autofiction

The Ferry

Fragments of a Dream. The first of our Fiction series

Events

Events

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.

InSight

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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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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