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2020 Vision
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From The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, published this month by Riverhead Books. Treuer is Ojibwe and from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1863, Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)…

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People Like Me
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From Black Is the Body, which will be published in February by Knopf. Bernard is a professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont,…

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The Vanishing
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The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance

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Worlds Apart
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By Inger Christensen, from The Condition of Secrecy. Christensen (1935–2009) was a Danish poet and writer. The book, a collection of essays, will be published in November by New Directions.…

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The Fountain Pen
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From the journal I did not keep

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As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation
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History haunts, but Alabama changes

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The Death of a Once Great City
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The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

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Family History
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By Zora Neale Hurston, from Barracoon, a previously unpublished ethnography based on interviews that she conducted with eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis in Alabama in 1927 and 1928. Lewis was then the…

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Nobody Knows
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When I was eighteen, I spent several months working as a bus girl at a diner. It was a cheerful-looking place, facing San Francisco Bay. The kitchen was L-shaped: the…

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The Other Whisper Network
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How Twitter feminism is bad for women

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American Women
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I am an American woman but I had no opportunity until a few years ago to know women in America. Living as I did in China, it is true that…

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