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A Burning by Megha Majumdar
A Burning Megha Majumdar Knopf | June 2, 2020 A Burning, Megha Majumdar’s rich debut novel, tracks the fate of three...
The Grounding Power of the Past
Early on in Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House, she mentions that a relative thinks “the past played tricks [while] the...
James Alan McPherson’s Masterpieces
This year, several headlines came out of the Pulitzer Prizes, perhaps most notably Colson Whitehead’s second award for...
Lost Generations
In her 2017 study of the Spanish Flu, Pale Rider, Laura Spinney suggests that the popular notion of the lost...
Reading Black Marks on the White Page
May is Asian and Pacific Islander heritage month, bringing with it a concerted focus among those in the publishing...
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