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Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò Oxford University Press, 2022 Silence of the Chagos by Shenaz Patel, trans Jeffrey Zuckerman Restless Books,

“All of No Man’s Land Is Ours,” organized by Vincent van Velsen and titled after the 1919 composition by the Black ragtime and jazz composer James Reese Europe, is not a comprehensive retrospective of Gallagher’s career thus far, but rather a “position” exhibition, designed specifically for the Hall of Honor,

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of Rotterdam-based American artist Ellen Gallagher.

Ghosts Adura Onashile is a star on the rise. She wrote Expensive Shit, set in a Scottish toilet and Fela Kuti’s nightclub in Lagos, and was due to portray Medea at last year’s Edinburgh international festival. Her latest is an audio drama about empire, to be heard on a walk through Glasgow. Rider Spoke