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    By Richard Beck  August 18, 2015
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    Five Books Making News This Week: Let the Franzen Begin

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    By Rebecca Brill  August 18, 2015
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    By Interview with a Bookstore  August 18, 2015
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    Angels in Disguise at Shakespeare and Company

    By Adrian Hornsby  August 17, 2015
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Square Books

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    Happy Birthday, Gary Larson: A Far Side Appreciation

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    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” in 10 Quotations

    By Oscar Van Gelderen  August 14, 2015
    Where to Go

    Literary Long Weekend: Washington, DC

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    Essay

    Memorializing the Unknown Dead

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    Request: Permission To Occupy Your Body

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    By Rion Amilcar Scott  August 11, 2015
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    How Do You Write From a Country That Doesn’t Exist?

    By Danielle Evans  August 11, 2015
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    From Within the Dark-Blood Depths

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    Young Black Writers: After Michael Brown

    By Zinzi Clemmons  August 11, 2015
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    Rachel. Trayvon. Michael. Dying. Laughing. A. Fiction.

    By Kiese Laymon  August 11, 2015
    Op-Ed

    A Brief History of the Present

    By Morgan Parker  August 11, 2015
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    I want to not have to write another word about who the cops keep killing

    By Khadijah Queen  August 11, 2015
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    Am I a Reliable Witness to My Own Life?

    By Sarah LaBrie  August 11, 2015
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    Keyword Search: “Ferguson” and “Mike Brown”

    By Angela Flournoy  August 11, 2015
    Politics

    Slow Dance, With Bullet

    By Hope Wabuke  August 11, 2015
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    Breath of Fresh Air

    By Yahdon Israel  August 11, 2015
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    A Very Brief History of Police Killings in the U.S.

    By Metta Sáma  August 11, 2015
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