Writing is a solitary experience. It’s you and your thoughts—all the chatter is internal. I do not quiver at the notion of solitude; I’m quite happy to be ensconced within
The award-winning Bristol-raised novelist on his new book about a teenage Rastafarian living in the city in volatile times<strong>, </strong>how he was influenced by The Catcher in the Rye - and being celebrated by a Tory politician
Writing is a solitary experience. It’s you and your thoughts all the chatter is internal. I do not quiver at the notion of solitude; I’m quite happy to be ensconced within my brain.When I fi
Simon Lee reviews Roydon Salick’s Ismith Khan: The Man and His work for Trinidad’s Guardian. As Anglophone Caribbean publishing and literature finally begins to secure a slot in the World Literature market, releasing more authors from obscurity (though possibly not penury) in the last decade than the previous 50 years, Roydon Salick’s recently published Ismith…
Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End