One advantage of following literary prizes: you never run out of recommendations.

I want a heroine who does both. Defeats the ancient evil and makes a meat pie nobody can stop talking about.

There’s already an audience waiting for this film, readers who’ve loved the novel for years and will show up with high expectations.

Slow reading is not about being a “serious” reader or reading for the sake of it. It’s about giving a book enough room to work on us.

One way of reviving African literature may not be just in terms of new themes, but in terms of new forms or structures.

Both Game of Thrones  and The Wheel of Time completely reshaped the fantasy genre, but they did it in almost opposite ways.

Finishing a short story gives readers a small but meaningful win. That feeling of completion builds confidence and reinforces the habit of reading.

Woolf told us to arrange whatever pieces come our way. Not to wait for the right circumstances or the market to want what you have.

Plot-wise, it was well thought out. No unnecessary gaps, the central theme was clear from the jump. Oyinkan builds tension steadily.

For a collection of short stories, Niq Mhlongo manages to give his characters depth in a few pages/sentences.

Way before Netflix and Prime, there were these. Blurry on late-night cable. Perfect on a stormy day. Plots that had you dreaming of love in ways that were maybe a little unrealistic.