Margaret Atwood selects Tutul for Pen writer of courage award
Atwood praises the ‘huge personal courage’ of the Bangladeshi publisher, who survived a machete attack by Islamic extremists and still won’t be silenced
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The Very Quiet Foreign Girls poetry group
When Kate Clanchy began teaching the children of refugees, she sought out those silenced by trauma and loss. Their weekly sessions released a torrent of untold stories
Read moreAn insider’s guide to Leicester: if it’s good enough for Richard III …
With the Premier League win and the discovery of a monarch’s remains, it’s been an astonishing few years for ‘the lost city’. Ben Ravilious shows us around the curry pubs, comedy and covered markets
Read moreThe French hip-hop stars fighting the far right
In the face of terrorism and Islamophobia, French-language rap is having a political reawakening
Read moreThe Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam – review
This teasing love story from one of Granta’s best young novelists has some superlative writing but struggles to pull its narrative threads together
Read more46 million people living as slaves, latest global index reveals
Walk Free Foundation, backed by Russell Crowe, names India as having highest number of slaves in the world
Read moreBengali Gentleman
Bengali gentleman is a dying breed, once a way of life and behaviors commonly expressed by our grandfathers and fathers generation. What is a Bengali gentleman? It’s certainly not the way they dress, but rather something that comes from within each person, the way they behave towards others and how they express themselves. There is close similarities with the English
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