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Sly wink at Terry Mac

Tayari Jones admires Wench, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who will read February 26 at Girls Write Now’s new Chapters series.

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Selassie’s end

The NYTBR praises my friend Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, which imagines the last days of Ethiopia’s emperor Selassie.

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Loud, forceful, empty?

For Katie Roiphe, like Caitlin Flanagan, dodgy polemic trumps reasoned analysis. This week: contemporary fiction is flaccid.

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