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Cybernetics and ghosts

Cybernetics and ghosts

WritersMosaic, a division of the RLF, returned to the British Library for its latest evening exploring the digital future of writing. In a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay Cybernetics and Ghosts, writers responded to the challenges that AI poses to our lives and literature.
Malcolm X: By any means necessary

Malcolm X: By any means necessary

Celebrating the life and activism of the revolutionary Malcolm X
Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood

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’

‘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 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

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 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

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, 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.
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