“The scars of history are on every writer.” Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in “The Nation”

The great Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is known for at least four things: writing a series of superb novels such as The River Between and A Grain of Wheat while still in his twenties; writing the novel Devil on the Cross on toilet paper while imprisoned in Kenya’s Kamiti maximum-security prison; turning from writing…

“Reading Under the Stars” – brilliance in Silver City, New Mexico

On August 18, 2018, the book-loving community of Silver City, New Mexico, came together to listen to Philip Connors, Sharman Apt Russell, Beate Sigriddaughter and Jack Crocker reading recent work. The event was entitled “Reading Under the Stars” and a few duly came out and lit up the sky although the brightest stars were the…

“Illegal” by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, illustrated by Giovanni Rigano

“You, who are so-called illegal aliens, must know that no human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?” (Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust…