In my experience, music and film have the ability to alleviate or crystallize unhappiness. While literature, among other wonderful things, has always shown me t...
A review of the best reads of 2012 from selected readers. Read part 1 of this series here.
Michael Onsando: 1Q84 - by Haruki Murakami
The first thing ...
A review of the best reads of 2012 from selected readers.
Maximilus: The City of Dreaming Books - by Walter Moers
By a wonderful serendipitous occurre...
For book lovers that want a taste of Kenyan traditions, experiences and literary aesthetics, here is part 1 of some of the books by Kenyan writers that, in my o...
By Alexander Ikawah
The chronicle of Binyavanga’s life begins with an anecdote from a playful childhood afternoon. He is clumsy, happy, unsure but in good co...
By Nyambura Mutanyi
This week has seen the world revel in the spectacle that is the Democratic National Convention. A Lesson Before Dying is a reminder of ju...
By Nyambura Mutanyi
Jonathan Franzen has a knack for interrogating the idiosyncrasies of America by looking at a family-singular, yet representative. Living ...
By Nyambura Mutanyi
Because of the reach of the British Empire, there were two sorts of people that Soyinka references in his poem ‘Telephone Conversation’: ...
By Nyambura Mutanyi
Professor Miriam Were is known to many of us as a writer of matters medical. In this book, we encounter Were the author of a book tha...
By Nyambura Mutanyi
Yates paints a picture of the middle-class family in the 50s that we have come to recognise from watching 'Mad Men', the TV series. F...