Maya Jaggi

London

Cultural Journalist and Critic at Freelance

Writer, critic, artistic director/@ftweekend @nybooks @guardian @LMdiplo /Jury Chair @EBRD Literature Prize 2024-5/Founding Dir. @oxfordlitfest Georgian program

Articles

Artist Ali Cherri’s histories of violence

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Maya Jaggi

The mud and bronze from which the Lebanese artist Ali Cherri sculpts his latest creations are freighted with history, memory and trauma,...
Maya Jaggi on NW

3 weeks ago | wasafiri.org | Maya Jaggi

In a Guardian review twelve years ago of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, rather than hailing a fresh ‘voice’ in fiction, I doffed my hat as a fellow Londoner-born-and-bred to a thrillingly acute new ear. The Babel of her debut novel was an ebullient rendering of changes wrought in the city’s language and landscape by an unfolding epic of postwar arrival and flux.
Where to Start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 month ago | realnewsmagazine.net | Maya Jaggi

Where to Start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 7 MIN READ Opinion By Maya Jaggi THE award-winning Nigerian author and Beyoncé-sampled essayist is back with her first novel in a decade, which makes now a great time to get to know her work. She’s won multiple awards for her novels, had her Ted talk sampled by Beyoncé, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015.
Where to Start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 month ago | news.band | Maya Jaggi |Kalu Nwokoro Idika

19 Share The award-winning Nigerian author and Beyoncé-sampled essayist is back with her first novel in a decade, which makes now a great time to get to know her work. She’s won multiple awards for her novels, had her Ted talk sampled by Beyoncé, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015.
Where to start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 month ago | centurypost.com.ng | Maya Jaggi

The award-winning Nigerian author and Beyoncé-sampled essayist is back with her first novel in a decade, which makes now a great time to get to know her work. She’s won multiple awards for her novels, had her Ted talk sampled by Beyoncé, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015. Now, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is back with her first novel in 10 years – so if you haven’t read anything by the Nigerian author yet, it’s a good time to catch up.
Where to start with: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Maya Jaggi

She’s won multiple awards for her novels, had her Ted talk sampled by Beyoncé, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015. Now, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is back with her first novel in 10 years – so if you haven’t read anything by the Nigerian author yet, it’s a good time to catch up. Writer and critic Maya Jaggi suggests some good ways in. The entry point?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 month ago | msn.com | Maya Jaggi

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A battle for memory is playing out at Russia's Gulag Museum

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Sophia Kishkovsky |Maya Jaggi

A reshuffling at the helm of the Gulag Museum in Moscow has revealed how the Kremlin is creating a new ideologically loyal cadre of cultural managers, some of whom are even receiving military training as part of their advancement. In November 2024, officials announced the temporary shutdown of the Gulag Museum over purported fire safety violations. This was followed a couple of months later by the announcement that its director, Roman Romanov, had been dismissed.
Sharjah Biennial shines a light on the global south

2 months ago | ft.com | Maya Jaggi

A knife slices into an engorged oyster to reveal chiselled gemstones among dumpling-like pearls, in a surreal close-up from Stephanie...
Alphonse Mucha — far more than a poster artist

2 months ago | ft.com | Maya Jaggi

Alphonse Mucha won overnight fame in Belle Époque Paris on New Year’s Day 1895, when one of his sinuous, pastel-coloured lithographs was...