Tag: literature

What if one decision could change the course of a life and rewrite literary history? In The Weight of Angels, acclaimed author John Boyne revisits one of the most consequential episodes in Oscar Wilde’s life. He imagines an alternative future for the celebrated Anglo-Irish playwright.

A powerful new novel from the Pulitzer prize-winning and booker-shortlisted author of the Overstory and Bewilderment. Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead to a startling artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough.

An enthralling and ferociously funny reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of the enslaved Jim. Written by Booker Prize-shortlisted Percival Everett, his novel Erasure is now released as the critically acclaimed and Oscar-winning film American Fiction, and James is set to be the literary event of 2024.

Multidisciplinary scholars showcase their search for decolonial strategies from within their disciplinary focus, covering ideas such as the different layers at which colonialism operates, strategies for a decolonisation that does not recolonise, and the importance of preserving and publishing in indigenous languages.

In Dockside Reading, Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House.