The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2004, shortly after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus.’
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African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
An artist’s vision of a future underwater Lima, Peru, graces the cover of the short story collection ‘Llaqtamasi.’
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In the Global South, a group of writers are rejecting the norms of science fiction and commenting on the future in a way that embraces Indigenous culture.
Kole Omotoso.
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‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on May 3, 2023, in Burbank, Calif.
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A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. But he also insisted that young people cherish those fleeting moments of joy.
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel ‘Purple Hibiscus’ intersperses Igbo words and expressions.
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Polyglot texts — texts that use many languages — have become increasingly common as writers document struggles between regimes of European hegemony and decolonizing movements.
Outside of teaching and writing, Samuel Steward took up tattooing.
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In a 1959 essay, Capote noted how Avedon seemed to capture ‘every hard-earned crow’s foot’ in his subjects – perhaps not realizing that he would one day be photographed by that same unvarnished gaze.
Making a book takes lots of brainstorming and writing, but there are many steps to printing it, too.
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Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
A faded photograph is attached to the headstone that marks the gravesite of Emmett Till in Chicago.
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