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Jesse McCarthy
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Jesse McCarthy is a PhD student in English at Princeton. His writing has appeared in Dissent , The Point , and The Nation .
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.
A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.
The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.
Ishmael Reed on life in the Major League; Scott Walker as Nixon’s protégé…
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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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