The Camera Always Lied
The oldest argument in photography is whether it tells the truth. It is also, in 2026, the most live argument. Generative image tools have m
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The oldest argument in photography is whether it tells the truth. It is also, in 2026, the most live argument. Generative image tools have m
The London Literature Festival opened tonight at the Royal Festival Hall, and its guest curator is Dua Lipa. Not a writer. Not a publisher.
Every year in the second week of October, London behaves differently. The galleries in Mayfair and the East End hang their most ambitious sh
In the mid-1980s, if you were in Mogadishu on a Saturday night, you went to the Jubba Hotel. The house band was Dur-Dur — a…
At a Lagos café, Awele waits to tell her friend she’s calling off her engagement — until a stranger in an identical, torn sweater sits…
GETMELIT · Issue 22 Saturday, October 3, 2026 Stories, poems, and reads that feed the literary mind. 01 — STORIES Titi Kusumandari is an Ind
In a Saint Lucian village, an elderly woman watches the sea creep further inland each night, taking her neighbors with it — though no one…
At a dying widow’s will reading in a Nigerian village, one buried secret about a civil-war land grab surfaces clause by clause — and threate
In two weeks, three things happen in the same seventy-two hours: Frieze London opens in Regent’s Park, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fai