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Celebrating the timeless magic of books: Why classical literature endures

Open the pages and you’re gone, transported to the writer’s exact state of mind

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Brave: Ghanaian author Kobby Ben Ben was at the recent Franschhoek Literary Festival. His first novel No One Dies Yet has queer themes but it also contains broader social commentary.

Kobby Ben Ben on breaking the queer ceiling

Novel writes queerness into a space where it’s forbidden and meanders through the unforgiving politics of Ghana, past and present

  • Eyaaz
8 min read

Notes from the Body

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  • Derek Davey
1 min read