Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
Trinidad's Bocas Literary Festival's European tour a few months ago included an event at the British Library chaired by Colin Grant.
‘I live in memory’
by Franklin Nelson
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić at the Tirana Film Festival
Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić reflect on the highlights from this year's Tirana Film festival in the Albanian capital where Goran Gocić was also one of the judges.
The Life, Writing & Legacy of James Baldwin
Celebrations of the centenary of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin continue at the Cambridge Literary Festival
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.
James Baldwin: A Response
Baldwin was known for his courage, integrity, humility, and unwavering passion, inspired generations of truth-tellers
Claude McKay, from Harlem to Marseille
Claude McKay, a leading light of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, travelled widely but struggled to live by his pen. At the British Film Institute in London, Burt Caesar was joined by writers to discuss a new documentary on McKay.
Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside
Black and brown Britons take to the countryside
A picture that never fades
How do you conjure family stories from unreliable sources?