Books: A Peep Into Claude McKay’s “Letters in Exile”

Books: A Peep Into Claude McKay’s “Letters in Exile”

By SWANJan 13 2026 (IPS) Nomadic Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay probably never dreamed that 21st-century readers would be delving into his private correspondence some 77 years after his death. But that’s probably part of the professional hazard (luck?) of being a literary luminary, or, as Yale University Press describes him, “one of the Harlem Renaissance’s brightest and most radical voices”. The Press recently released Letters in Exile: …