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Monique Truong: Lafacadio Hearn’s wandering life as a search for home
The “multiplicity within Hearn,” says Monique Truong, convinced her that a single point of view wouldn’t be adequate to exploring the shape-shifting writer’s life story.

“She (Butler) seems to have seen the real future coming in a way few other writers did” — enjoy a teaser for our forthcoming Octavia Butler edition with a handy @AP primer.
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Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, et al. — “The natural right of all Men—& their Children”

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American Birds: A Literary Companion
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