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Attica Locke

October 2024

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    Attica Locke on the US election: ‘It’s white Americans that have to fix this’

    The Highway 59 author discusses the influence of politics on her crime novels, how Beyoncé caused a backlash, and why Trump’s re-election is not as likely as it seems

September 2020

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    Attica Locke: why did my black ancestors never leave Texas? They knew land is power

    The crime novelist considers how abuses of property have defined her family’s history, and now shape her fiction

April 2020

  • ‘Making political writing into an art’ … John Hurt in a still from the 1984 film of Orwell’s novel.

    'Biography' of Nineteen Eighty-Four leads Orwell prize longlist

    Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth is among the contenders for the political writing award named after the dystopian classic’s author

September 2019

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    Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke review – compelling Texas noir

  • Attica Locke in Los Angeles on 23rd August 2019 pic © Dan Tuffs

    Books interview
    Attica Locke: ‘When I feel racial pain, I play blues songs’

August 2018

  • (L-R) Authors Attica Locke and Esi Edugyan at Hotel Figuera in Los Angeles , California on 26th July 2018 - Please mention “Hotel Figueroa” in the caption. They gave permission to shoot on the property at very short notice. Pic © Dan Tuffs pic to accompany Geeta Dayal article in Sat Review

    Attica Locke and Esi Edugyan, in conversation: ‘There is so much of our existence that has not been heard’

    American author Locke and Canadian novelist Edugyan discuss writing about marginal lives, slavery and Locke’s upcoming Netflix show with Ava DuVernay

September 2017

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    Attica Locke: ‘When Trump was elected, overnight my book changed. I didn’t alter a word’

  • Attica Locke Portrait Session<br>LYON, FRANCE - MARCH 28; American writer Attica Locke poses during a portrait session held on March 28, 2015 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)

    Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke review – dead bodies and bigotry

September 2016

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    The Obama years: novelists assess his legacy

    Expectations were sky high when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. As his term draws to a close, has he disappointed or delivered? Novelists in America appraise him

July 2016

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    Best holiday reads 2016

    From gripping fiction to history, brilliant poetry to biography, our guest contributors offer their recommendations for the beach and elsewhere

May 2015

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    Book of the day
    Pleasantville review – Attica Locke’s dazzlingly good third novel

    The Black Water Rising writer returns with a vivid tale of a dirty mayoral race and a killer on the loose

April 2015

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    Pleasantville by Attica Locke review – murder on the mayoral race

  • Attica Locke photographed at her home in Los Angeles

    On my radar
    On my radar: Attica Locke’s cultural highlights

October 2012

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    The Obama years
    Attica Locke on Obama: 'My daughter knows there's no ceiling now'

    Los Angeles novelist Attica Locke loves the Obamas 'from a place beyond policy', she tells Lisa O'Kelly, as she gives her verdict on the presidency

September 2012

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    The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review

    Belles, balls and bloody deeds mingle to dazzling effect in Attica Locke's evocation of the deep south past and present, writes Alison Flood
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    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Books podcast: Crime fiction with Agatha Christie and Attica Locke

    We investigate a waspish essay on crime writing from Agatha Christie, Attica Locke considers race and history in the American south and Tanya Byrne tells us about young readers who are turning to crime

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    • The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review

    • Why we're watching …
      Why we're watching… Attica Locke

    • Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon – review

November 2009

  • Black Water Rising by Attica Locke

    Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
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