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Jesse McCarthy
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Jesse McCarthy is an assistant professor of English and African and Africa American studies at Harvard and an editor at The Point .
As with Pilate, the fierce outsider and moral conscience of Song of Solomon , Morrison never asked for the proverbial seat at the table. Instead, she pulled the entire table over to her side of the room.
Like a new planet, she shifted the flow of gravity in American culture.
Ranging across the Mediterranean, his novels map out the intermediate space between East and West.
This week’s legislative elections offer an opportunity to steer President Emmanuel Macron in the direction of justice and away from a moneyed autocracy.
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A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.
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The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.
The Sellout takes aim at black middle-class foibles and fantasies.
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