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- Not a political artist but a citizen: Notes from a conversation between Glenn Ligon and Claudia Rankine at Art Basel Miami Beach. | Hyperallergic
- “Sex is a part of life. Art is supposed to mirror life.” Garth Greenwell, Jade Sharma and Rebecca Schiff offer advice about writing sex and recommendations of authors who do it well. | The Huffington Post
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- “Social and political criticism, especially of the current government, often gets writers jailed, but rarely when it appears between two covers.” On Turkey’s crackdown on writers, which hasn’t extended to novelists. | The New York Times
- Scenes from the Republic of Gilead: A preview of the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. | EW
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