Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

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After that, I read some books by Indian authors, like, of course, Raj Kamal Jha, and I read Arundhati Roy. I even met her in South Korea. And before I came to India, I started to read something like a ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

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