Articles by Chris Abani

Rotten English A Literary Anthology Edited by Dohra Ahmad W. W. Norton: 536 pp., $15.95 paper “ROTTEN English” is the first anthology to collect a large sample of international literature written in what has often been called English-in-Situation – or variously, vernacular, slang, dialect, patois, Creole. Read more

Rotten English A Literary Anthology Edited by Dohra Ahmad W.W. Norton: 536 pp., $15.95 paper “ROTTEN English” is the first anthology to collect a large sample of international literature written in what has often been called English-in-Situation – or variously, vernacular, slang, dialect, patois, Creole. Read more

DINAW MENGESTU belongs to that special group of American voices produced by global upheavals and intentional, if sometimes forced, migrations. Read more

REVOLUTIONS are the stuff of literature. Read more

“Even if we looted them a thousand times, they would always manage to hang onto something,” marvels the eponymous soldier of the refugees fleeing rival militias in the novel “Johnny Mad Dog,” a horrifying exploration of inhumanity set against the brutal civil strife in Central Africa’s Republic of Congo – a war from which author Emmanuel Dongala and his family fled in 1997. Read more