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Known as an eloquent and creative thinker, Jamake Highwater developed an artistic perspective as fluid and dynamic as the evolution of his own name. Highwater wrote about seemingly disparate fields…

A white South African of British descent, Alan Paton wrote what is considered one of the great African novels in English. His mother was a teacher and his father was…

Punishment Without Crime, subtitled What You Can Do About Prejudice, is intended to be a handbook in the struggle against intolerance. Dr. Fineberg does not waste time in denouncing bias…

In 1899 the Munich publisher Hugo Bruckmann (later to be one of Hitler’s early financial backers) brought out a rambling book of a thousand pages, The Foundations of the Nineteenth…

Shirley Graham Du Bois was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the oldest of David A. Graham and Etta (Bell) Graham’s five children. Growing up, she moved with her family to various…

When Richard Rodriguez published his collection of six autobiographical essays, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez in 1981, roars erupted from both ends of the political spectrum. His…

When awarding the prize, the Nobel committee described Soyinka, the creator of over 20 major works, as “one of the finest poetical playwrights that have written in English,” and also…

This book is the story of the Warsaw ghetto from November 1939 to May 1943 told by means of a fictional diary kept by Noach Levinson, self-appointed archivist of Polish…

José Alcina Franch was a Catalan archaeologist and ethnological historian, born in Spain. He studied at the University of Valencia, and developed an interest in archaeology, initially with a historical…

Breytenbach composed this docu-dream during a period of incarceration. Mouroir (mourir: to die + miroir: mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea…

In 1949, while the world was still licking its war wounds, Laurens van der Post set off for the British colony of Nyasaland (now Malawi) to map two mountains still…

When asked to classify his writing, Farley Mowat has quipped, “The only people who belong in pigeonholes are pigeons.” Mowat’s works are difficult to classify since he is a masterful…

Daughter of a Dutch mother and Chinese father, Elizabeth Chou assumed the pseudonym Han Suyin, meaning “the Chinese gamble-for liberty.” Suyin was profoundly sympathetic to the government of Mao Tse…

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? …Maybe it just sags like…