As someone who is interested in Muslim novels—by which I mean novels written by Muslims about Muslims—I always feel a scholarly tug towards Hanif Kureishi's The Black Album (Scribner, 1995) when ...

The debut book by Nibras Malik unleashes poetry's philosophical power As a debut poetry collection “Postcolonial Metaphysics” by Nibras Malik transcends the boundaries of conventional verse, delving ...

Ambreen Hai specializes in Anglophone postcolonial literature from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and 19th–20th century literature of the British Empire. Additional research and teaching ...

When V.S. Naipaul was interviewed after the release of Between Father and Son, a collection of the letters he exchanged with his father after moving from Trinidad to Oxford for a scholarship in 1950, ...

Nissim Ezekiel’s A Time to Change was published seventy years ago, in 1952. To many, this was the first significant book of postcolonial poetry in English. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was published in ...

While crowds admire South Asian and African novelists like Rushdie or Achebe, American readers academic and otherwise don't care enough about verse from developing nations. Jahan Ramazani (Poetry of ...

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power ...

Julia Obert, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of English, has released her second book, “The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and ...