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The Poetry of Attention
The possibilities of perception
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge,
Lacey Jones
Conversations
The Limits of Empathy
Two writers on the ethics of pen and paper
Namwali Serpell,
Maria Tumarkin
"In the end, what interests me is that I have the agency to accept the whole of the literary canon as 'mine'—even in instances when the language may exclude or harm me—and the freedom to choose the terms in which I participate and learn from any reading experience."
Elif Batuman, On when she stops reading
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The Hauntologies of Slavery
Finding history and meaning on a journey across the sea
Jonah Mixon-Webster
Books
Speech Acts
Eunice de Souza, a post-Independence Indian poet, explores the glitches in poetic voicing
Vidyan Ravinthiran
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