“White people try to tell us that everything will be just fine when we go to heaven. My question is, will they be there? If so, I might make other arrangements.” A profound companion to Mark Twain’s culture-defining novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), James flips the script on Huck’s boyish adventure and original perception […]

On 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie prepared to give a lecture about the importance of keeping writers safe from harm in Chautauqua, New York, when a 24-year-old man from New Jersey rushed the stage and stabbed the author 14 times, one of them through the left eye. Nearly two years after the ironic incident, a […]

The Gifts is a novel set in London during the early 1840s. It is about a group of unrelated women who suddenly grow a pair of wings each, and how their stories become unfortunately interwoven as they attract the attention of Edward Meake. He is a scientist, who is envious of his wildly successful best friend […]