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Caleb Smith

Caleb Smith is professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of The Prison and the American Imagination and The Oracle and the Curse and the editor of The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and other publications. Thoreau's Axe is his latest book.


Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies

Caleb Smith on Beloved’s “Reanimating Act of Attention”
February 1, 2023  By Caleb Smith
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