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We gathered on May 15th at The People’s Forum, New York for a night of readings to commemorate 76 years of the Nakba, amplify the Palestinian liberation struggle, and demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. WATCH here:   Participants included Ibtisam Azem, Najla Said, Huda Fakhredinne, Maaza Mengiste, Ahmad Almallah, Mona Eltahawy, Emna Zghal, Nadia Saah, Suha Araj, Christopher Stone, Hafsa Kanjwal, Siddhartha Deb, Anna Arabindan Kesson, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Zohra Saed, Sean Jacobs, Christina Dhanuja, Anthony Alessandrini, Jee Leong Koh, Suneela Mubayi, Valérie Gruhn, Manan Ahmed and Omar Berrada. Nakba Day marks the devastation of the Palestinian homeland in 1948 through ethnic...

On December 2nd, participants in our “Reading Palestine” session shared and read out these powerful poems. We have assembled them all here... Traveling Tickets I Grant You Refuge  

Why is publishing so white? North American and European publishing structures remain overwhelmingly and disproportionately white and are entirely anchored in a handful of corporate entities which get to decide whose stories proliferate in the world today. Color of Publishing is our three-part series focused on this crisis, and we have gathered perspectives from publishing professionals in the United States (Elizabeth Méndez Berry & Porsche Burke) and the United Kingdom (Margaret Busby & Ellah P. Wakatama). In the first episode, Radical Books Collective co-founders, Bhakti Shringarpure and Suchitra Vijayan start with a debrief of the 2022 PEN America report on publishing titled...

We're excited to launch our new podcast and web series called MEHFIL which explores a wide range of themes within South Asian culture Hosted by Dr. Amrita Ghosh, the first season features literature, film, cuisine, ghosts and translation.  Listen to all the episodes on our podcast, the BookRising! The Mehfil series is also available on our YouTube Channel! Watch here👇🏿 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstXMEF0r05bQb1vjBwhvCn02dmMX4vP