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Evan Selinger reviews Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell’s “The Smartness Mandate” and finds it “vertigo-inducing.”...
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Koritha Mitchell discusses her research for a scholarly edition of Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”...
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A Bewildering World: On Max Porter’s “Shy”
Joel Pinckney reviews Max Porter’s “Shy.”...
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Matthew James Seidel reviews Leopoldo Gout’s “Piñata.”...
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Gary Indiana’s “Do Everything in the Dark”
Kate Wolf is joined by author Gary Indiana to speak about the recent reissue of his 2003 novel, “Do Everything in the Dark.”...
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