Every 16-year-old in Sweden is getting a copy of We Should All Be Feminists
What’s the difference between a 16-year old in Sweden and a 16-year old in Britain? In Britain, the government is planning to axe the study of gender equality and patriarchy… Read more »
The Folio Prize adds a new string to its bow
The Folio Society announced in 2013 that it would be launching a new literary prize, and one that would be open to all books written in English, whether or not… Read more »
Lupita Nyong’o is cast in “Americanah,” but the last Adichie film is still delayed by Nigerian censors
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award last year, seems well-suited for the stage or screen. It could be a sort of subversion of Steel… Read more »
Gay Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina makes the Time 100
In January, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina came out as gay, following the passage of a wave of anti-gay laws in Africa. Having grown up in a country where homosexuality is… Read more »
Walter Dean Myers and his son talk about race and children’s books
In the Sunday Times, YA author Walter Dean Myers and his son Christopher Myers, an illustrator, discussed the necessity of more diverse children’s books. A new study from the Cooperative… Read more »
Nigerian feminist literature’s crossover moment
The Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was already having a pretty good year—she was named one of Foreign Policy’s “Top Global Thinkers,” and her third novel, Americanah, was published to… Read more »