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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News: Review
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News By Kevin Young Graywolf Review by Rochelle Spencer When a reality star becomes your president and his advisor describes the exaggerations about the size of his inauguration crowd as “alternative facts,” could there be a better time to discuss bunk?
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Citizen by Claudia Rankine: Review
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Graywolf Press Reviewed by Nicole Sealey Nothing Could Be More Normal: A Review of and Meditation on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen
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Best Books of 2014
BEST BOOKS OF 2014 by Clarence V. Reynolds Freelance editor and literary arbiter Clarence V. Reynolds reads five books per day, or was that per month.
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Best Books of 2011
NONFICTION Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 By Caryl Phillips The New Press In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written,
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Thomas Sayers Ellis: Interview
by Penny Dickerson Poet, essayist, and editor, Thomas Sayers Ellis is a literary threat. Harvard educated and a Brown University graduated; noted writer Elizabeth Alexander described him as, “One of our geniuses.”