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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years

"I was benefiting from a history that had come to negate my history"

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | October 12, 2016

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Durs Grünbein Remembers a Childhood Under Occupation

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Gloria Naylor: Mama Day, Mama Night, Bigger than Life

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Julia Alvarez Remembers the Author of The Women of Brewster Place

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To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough on Her Mother Tongue and Another

By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | October 4, 2016

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

Tom Shroder on Growing Up in the Shadow of MacKinlay Kantor

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P.N. Singer on rescuing his grandfather's book from oblivion

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