The Banaras Lit Fest has announced the longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation categories for its 2025 book awards. Besides English, the awards are also given to Hindi language books.
Her poetry explores essential themes related to the treatment of African women and the ... Jabang’s exploration of gender inequality and societal injustice solidifies her work as a vital contribution ...
All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...
By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...
God is not neutral when it comes to injustice. God enters history on the side of the marginalized and oppressed, in their struggle to live free of unjust social, cultural, and political realities. It ...
The Parliamentary Ombudsman took the unusual step of laying the report before MPs due to "very significant concern that the injustice identified will go unremedied" if left to the Government. The ...
Our columnist approves. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry ...
It was only in 2025 that the Supreme Court finally recognised that a grave injustice had been perpetrated by the judicial system in this case. Even as it directs Om Prakash’s release ...
The poetry of Fady Joudah ... Even when indulging the oppressors in their own sense of injustice, Joudah’s words are a shocking reminder of the asymmetries of empathy and therefore power ...
As a wrongfully convicted man, Billie deserves a pardon. Mr. President, I’m sure you are aware of the injustice I endured. I was arrested in 1989 at the age of 15 and charged with the brutal ...
Amanda Gorman, a Los Angeles native and the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate best known for her poem "The Hill We Climb," took to social media Saturday to express her condolences ...