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From playgrounds to pride, from panels to podcasts—this is Indian English literature spilling out of the book and into everything else By ABS, The Literary Scholar, who believes that children’s books, queer poems, podcasts and comics are all literature—just written in different dialects of truth. You thought literature lived quietly between hardcovers? That it wore

Patrick White, Christina Stead, and the novelists who turned isolation into high art and existential dread. By ABS, who believes that Australian literature discovered its soul somewhere between a sheep paddock, a philosophical crisis, and a very dry wit. After the bush ballads faded and the swagmen wandered off into metaphor, Australian literature experienced a

Colonial tales, bush ballads, and the art of storytelling when everyone’s sunburnt and slightly suspicious of authority. By ABS, who believes that the best literature often begins where exile ends—and someone accidentally rhymes “kangaroo” with “screw you.” Australian literature didn’t exactly begin with sonnets and salons. It began with chains, silence, and paperwork. Lots of

Instagram Poets, Prize Circuits, and Why Everyone’s Still Misreading African Literature From ABS, Who Believes literary fame is not always literary understanding. This is where the syllabus ends—and the spectacle begins. Where the bookshelves gleam with award stickers, and authors smile at literary festivals while secretly wondering if the moderator has read past chapter one.This

Sci-fi, Surrealism, and Why African Writers Are Lightyears Ahead of Western Tropes From ABS, Who Believes that the future is African—and the spaceship runs on ancestral memory and sass. In most Western science fiction, the future looks suspiciously like Silicon Valley in space—clean, white, metallic, and somehow still obsessed with AI having feelings.But in Afrofuturism?

Resistance Literature from the Streets of Soweto to the Cells of Lagos From ABS, Who Believes metaphors are weapons, especially when the censors don’t get them. When your country jails dissidents, bans books, and declares “everything is fine” while tanks roll past bookstores, you either stop writing or you learn to write like a ninja.Africa

African Women Writers and the Fine Art of Reclaiming Narrative Without Needing a White Translator’s Approval From ABS, Who Believes the only thing more powerful than a mother tongue is a mother with a pen. He Wrote, She Wrote, The West Misquoted African Women Writers and the Fine Art of Reclaiming Narrative Without Needing a

Myth, Magic, and Modern Mess in African Storytelling from Oral Epics to Bureaucratic Nightmares From ABS, Who Believes folktales are more truthful than most press briefings. Before the printing press or publishing deals, before the empire’s map crayons coloured entire continents beige, Africa had its own Wi-Fi network: the griot. A walking library. A melodic