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I realised that I had what Sam did not. Even when it’s quite clear that people around me are...
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Akilter – for the brothers
Philonise Floyd’s incredible speech in tribute to his brother George inspired and features in this mix.
The Furious Passage of James Baldwin
He was about ten, and puny for his age, when two Harlem patrolmen stopped him in an empty lot....
4 3 2 1
So there they were in July 1961, about to set off for Camp Paradise at the start of that eventful...
How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms. Their hands and...
Burmese Days
‘Ah, doctor,’ said Flory, supine in the long chair, ‘what a joy to be here after that bloody Club....
On Beauty
The bus approached. Levi did not notice it. At the last minute he stretched out his hand. The bus...
Caged Bird
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his...
An email from a racist ex-colleague
I apologise for ‘reprinting’ the offensive terms and language that I received in this...
The Year Of Dreaming Dangerously
In San Francisco on Sunday October 16, 2011, in an echo of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a man...
Catch 22
“How could I learn to read or write?” Chief White Halfoat demanded with simulated...
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“You know what’s funny,” I say, “the thing I was most worried about when I...
