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An Evening With an Immigrant

For 14 years, Inua Ellams has been searching for a place to belong. Once enjoying an idyllic upbringing in middle-class Nigeria, the Ellams family found themselves victims of extremism, and…

Loud Poets

With a stage set with spotlights on a sole microphone and the band on the outskirts of the light’s glow, this is a performance that aims to focus all its…

Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer

At a decade sweeping 66 years old, the Warhol-superstar Goliath was pulling no punches on her drop-in 12–day slot during this year’s Fringe. She has seen more decades go by…

An Interview with Ghostpoet

Ahead of his Mercury Prize nomination on the 20th for his third album, Shedding Skin, Obaro Ejimiwe and I discuss his latest album, his influences and ambitions, and where his…