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James Baldwin: Some degrees of separation
Literary scholar Rafia Zafar reflects on how the New York City background she shares with James Baldwin offers insights into the tangled family history underlying her “accomplished adult self.”

Good call! For Nicole Krauss, the great Jewish American novel is Philip Roth's 1986 work THE COUNTERLIFE
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Geoffrey C. Ward on Reporting Vietnam: “An astonishingly polished first draft of history”
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Peter Taylor, “Je Suis Perdu”
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Peter Taylor: The Complete Stories
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 (two volumes)
John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1991–2000 LOA N°301
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