Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Look by Solmaz Sharif

Diane Abbott is more than just a groundbreaking politician, she is a symbol. Black communities are watching.
My latest for The Guardian
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Today’s the last day to sign this petition asking the UK to stop selling arms to Israel. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6529…

‘The denial of access to a war zone is “unprecedented”, according to Fiona O’Brien, the director of Reporters without Borders (RSF). “We’ve never seen anything like it.”’

@selmadabbagh on the dire state of reporting from Gaza, from the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

Hind Khoudary basement films WATCH Kill Zone: Inside Gaza streaming now
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Thrilled that audience members enjoyed today's event with Fitzcarraldo Editions authors Jean-Baptiste Del Amo and Munir Hachemi 木林 + Spanish novelist Sara Mesa as much as I did

Every politician who fails to call for the UNSC to demand a ceasefire and impose Sanctions on Israel if it does not comply is complicit. Every politician who does not call today for an immediate arms sale ban is complicit. #AllEyesOnRafah

For a novel about civil war, love and redemption, The Road to the Country is oddly sluggish

🖋Max Liu

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BREAKING: Hay Festival have dropped sponsor Baillie Gifford

✊This shows the power we have when we unite as workers, and remain steadfast in our solidarity with Palestine.

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For i newspaper I reviewed Chigozie Obioma's novel The Road to the Country and thought it overwritten, superficial Booker-bait: inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

Please amplify the work of Hay Festival's Writers at Work cohort. You can read their open letter.

Divestment is possible! Writers are stronger when we work and organise together.

Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being came out 40 years ago (Faber Books), greeted by a McEwan review (Woolfian headline 'Granite and Rainbow'), Roth interview, TV discussion w Lindsay Anderson + J P Stern. Here's my New Left Review essay when he died newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

My novel is coming out very soon 🤯

'Nothing will be the same again after this...' Extraordinary and heartbreaking conversation about poetry in the face of calamity podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hud…

Chaired an event last week with six writers, all of whom read brilliantly from their books. Made me think writers are more comfortable reading aloud than they used to be and there could be more reading, less discussion (less me!) at events. I do like to hear writers read

The only game in town

I love reviewing first novels and wish I got to do it more. Here's me on England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee - the best debut I've read this year - for this weekend's FT Weekend: ft.com/content/d4edbd…