In 1958 Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, published his first book, Things Fall Apart. Set in pre-colonial rural Nigeria, it examines how the arrival of foreigners led to tensions within traditional ...

Show more In 1958 Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, published his first book, Things Fall Apart. Set in pre-colonial rural Nigeria, it examines how the arrival of foreigners led to tensions within ...

The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the ...

Though the language debate dominated Ngũgĩ’s intellectual and literary oeuvre, his tackling issues was no different from Chinua Achebe ... a bearing on Things Fall Apart. Achebe and Ngũgĩ ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Lesléa Newman, who lives in Massachusetts. Lesléa began writing 60 years ago. When asked about her favorite subject/theme/target audience ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...

How Thunder-Pacers reached NBA Finals Game 7: The odyssey of two small-market, rebuild darlings Yahoo Sports is winding back the clock to unravel the story behind the unlikely June showdown ...