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Saving Chester Himes’s Cat
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Ishmael Reed on ‘Juice!’
Ishmael Reed © Terence Byrnes. Seventy-three-year-old Ishmael Reed has been a major figure in American letters for more than four decades. In April, Dalkey Archive published Juice!, Reed’s first novel...
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Work Frustrations; Social Climbing
Okay, I have a question about the ideal sort of job for a young writer. If not ideal, then certainly better. I am a gallery manager in Manhattan. It is an exhausting, constantly detail-oriented job...
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The Moral Foulness of the Age, and Other News
A 1799 cartoon by Gillray: an obese, gouty man drinking punch with two companions. Our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, writes with Bernard Haykel on jihadi poetry: “Analysts have generally ignored these...
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Saving Chester Himes’s Cat
Chester Himes with his cat, Griot. Chester Himes and John Alfred Williams met in 1961 and soon began a long and occasionally tempestuous correspondence about their personal lives and the difficulty of...
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Blues to Come
Harriet Tubman’s new album Araminta has a joyous aura of creative destruction. Harriet Tubman In 1967, Thelonious Monk wrote his only waltz: a slow, sweet, faintly melancholy tune he called “Ugly...
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