Six myths that remain essential to understanding literature and the human psyche.
SongWriter is a podcast that turns stories into songs, featuring David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Earle, David Sedaris, Susan Orlean, Craig Finn (The Hold Steady), and Questlove.
In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Ben Okri's Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, a story of a masked ball in present-day France, drawing on A Midsummer Night’s ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
British politician Jeremy Corbyn praised Nigerian author Ben Okri in his first major speech as Labour leader. In this poem, Ben Okri pens a powerful response. They say there is only one way for ...
Nigerian novelist Ben Okri to discuss politics, the state of the world and the potential for positive change with British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. The discussion with the Booker prize-winning ...
A stirring one-man performance of T.S.Eliot’s iconic long poem by one of Britain’s most acclaimed poets and novelists. Ben Okri, Booker prize-winning author of The Famished Road, will give a solo, ...
What drew you to discussing Okigbo? He’s one of the most powerful African poets of the 20th century, and there's something mysterious about him. He only published one book of poems—Labyrinths—which, ...
A dance-drama about life as a constant improvisation, presented by Charlotte Jarvis, choreographer and dance artist, and Ben Okri, poet novelist & playwright, and writer of The Coronet Theatre’s ...
WE entered the town of the dying at sunset. We went from house to house. Everything was as expected, run-down, a desert, luminous with death and hidden life. The gunrunners ...
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