Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California. Photograph: Michael Tyrone Delaney/The GuardianThe Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing
by Carey BarakaApproachIn October, I flew to Irvine to meet the novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. I had spent the previous few weeks in cold and windy Iowa, and the sunshine and warmth of California was a balm.
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Amazon iBooks Independent Bookstores The Women in the Castle, the new novel by Jessica Shattuck, tells the story of three women, and their children, who take refuge in the ruins of a Bavarian castle at the end of World War II. The women are war widows — war resistance widows, really — whose husbands paid with their lives for the July 1944 plot against Adolf Hitler.
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Blending old hits with languid tracks from their latest album, the talented Mr Turner seems to be on autopilot – but who cares when the songs are so good?
It’s a cloudy night in Melbourne, but of course the sunglasses stay on. There are few frontmen touring today who lean into the theatrics of rockstardom as effortlessly as Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. At least these days, it seems like he’s enjoying it.
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Omeretta the Great is keeping love alive. The former Love & Hip-Hop cast member opened up about future wedding plans with her boyfriend who is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence.
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12. During a recent census, a man told the census taker that he had three children. When asked their ages, he replied, "The product of their ages is 72. The sum of their ages is the same as my house number." The census taker ran to the man's front door and looked at the house number. "I still can't tell," she complained. The man replied, "Oh that's right, I forgot to tell you that the oldest one likes chocolate pudding.