Readers Are Fascinated by Reality in Fiction—and It Issues

Photograph by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash In the present day’s publish is by creator Penny Haw. Readers are intrigued by what’s or is perhaps true in literature. Even when authors vow that our fiction is simply that—fiction!—readers interrogate us, and dissect characters, habits, plot, and themes to search out hidden parts of autobiography. There’s a […]


Sacrifices for the Reality: On Kenyan Author Abdilatif Abdallah by Sanya Osha

Picture by Laurin Rinder / Adobe Inventory Abdilatif Abdallah (b. 1946, Mombasa) is a serious Swahili poet who was, till just lately, largely unknown to English readers. A fantastic quantity of his work, The Imaginative Imaginative and prescient in Abdilatif Abdallah’s Voice of Agony (College of Michigan Press, 2024), has been edited and launched by Annmarie Drury. […]