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New Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her new collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, much of which, unlike her prior work, is set in the States.

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Sayrafiezadeh reviewed

Dwight Garner praises Sayrafiezadeh’s When Skateboards Will Be Free for its “wistful comedy” and curiosity about the intersection of “desire, self-sacrifice & societal obligation.”

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On the collected Seidel

Christian Lorenzten says Frederick Seidel emerges in his collected poems as a “reluctant but willful ambassador of American excess.”

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