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He Got Away With Everything: Reading True Grit After the Reelection of Donald Trump

Piers Gelly Considers Charles Portis’s Masterpiece in the Long Shadow of 2016

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Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

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By Naomi Day | January 9, 2025

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