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“Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the 20th century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total…
“In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution…
“In a memoir spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, Genesis P-Orridge, the inventor of ‘industrial music,’ founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine…
“Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any…
“From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped…
“Xiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir Nine Continents is…
“On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her…
“It’s 1989 and Rae Earl is a fat, boy-mad seventeen-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire, with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint-green…
“A noted memoirist relates his time serving in World War II, during which he experienced the terrors of armed conflict, as well as came to terms with his sexuality, experienced…