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These Must-Read Debut Works Center Black Stories

These literary debuts are worthy additions to any bookshelf and to the great American literary tradition.

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02.18.2021
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5 Books That Will Transform the Way You See the World

They deal with serious topics, but among these are also stunning love stories and characters who will make you laugh out loud.

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02.17.2021
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Rumaan Alaam on How Privilege Informs Crisis Response

The author's latest work Leave the World Behind examines race, class, parenthood, and environmental issues.

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02.16.2021
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Facing Our Climate Future Through Literature

Diane Cook's new novel illustrates how environmental calamity will affect all of us—unless we change course.

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02.16.2021
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Brian Washington on the Existence of Simultaneous Truths

Washington's novel Memorial tackles big issues like race with humor and real people and an electric energy.

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02.16.2021
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Susan Abulhawa Writes to Affirm Palestinian Existence

Her book Against the Loveless World follows Nahr, a Palestinian refugee who tells her story from a solitary-confinement cell in Israel.

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02.16.2021
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Brit Bennett Writes Toward Questions, Not Answers

Her book The Vanishing Half combines a tale of love, abandonment, and betrayal with deep social insights about race and identity.

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02.10.2021
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Akwaeke Emezi Centers Those at the Margins

Their latest novel The Death of Vivek Oji is a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader.

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02.03.2021
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Brandon Taylor Writes to Understand People

Taylor is the author of Real Life, a novel that follows a group of friends as they argue, manipulate, and fall in and out of love.

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01.28.2021
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