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Author Archives → Alastair Curtis

My Body Was Not My Own

posted in Interviews on July 31, 2018 by Alastair Curtis

Edouard Louis is one of the foremost members of the French literary elite, but his autobiographical works deal unflinchingly with the social violence and oppression among the nation’s working class, he tells the ORB.

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Too Pure an Air for a Slave

posted in Essays & Reviews on March 14, 2018 by Alastair Curtis

The historical presence of black people in sixteenth-century England has been deliberately obscured since the days of empire. Efforts to revise these false accounts have unearthed remarkably integrated black Tudors.

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