BCMN executive director Barbara Clara Makhalisa Nkala The Barbara Clara Makhalisa Nkala literary trust (BCMN) recently concluded its writing competition for children’s stories in IsiNdebele language, and the winners were announced recently. Calls for entrants to write stories for lower and upper primary were made at the beginning of the year. There was one winner […]
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Black-and-white Bobby. Photographs by Sophie Haigney. Let’s start with the dark stuff. On Saturday night in San Francisco, after the second-to-last-ever Dead & Co. show, every single ATM near the ballpark was apparently out of cash, because people couldn’t stop buying balloons filled with nitrous oxide, huffing them on the street for just a few […]
The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges lost his vision—what he called his “reader’s and writer’s sight”—around the same time that he became the director of the National Library of Argentina. This put him in charge of nearly a million books, he observed, at the very moment he could no longer read them. Borges, who went […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) William Wordsworth’s classic poem beginning ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, which was first published in 1807, is a classic work of English Romanticism. Part of its power lies in the symbolism Wordsworth uses. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most important symbols from Wordsworth’s ‘daffodils […]
Great writers often have notes for ideas that never quite fully bake. Those notes may not have become books, poems or stories yet, but they continue to simmer in the writers’ imaginations, waiting for the chance to catch fire and take form – maybe that would be flambe. Our next guest can help me fix […]
Great writers often have notes for ideas that never quite fully bake. Those notes may not have become books, poems or stories yet, but they continue to simmer in the writers’ imaginations, waiting for the chance to catch fire and take form – maybe that would be flambe. Our next guest can help me fix […]
A few Caribbean literature titles. Photo by Janine Mendes-Franco, used with permission. The Caribbean has always been known for the quality of its literature, having birthed Nobel Laureates like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul , not to mention a modern-day resurgence in the popularity of its literary offerings, thanks in part to Trinbagonian writers like […]
Great writers often have notes for ideas that never quite fully bake. Those notes may not have become books, poems or stories yet, but they continue to simmer in the writers’ imaginations, waiting for the chance to catch fire and take form – maybe that would be flambe. Our next guest can help me fix […]
