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From brilliant new voices to seasoned icons, many of the past year’s breakout works are by Black authors. In June, Great Black Hope, a coming-of-age story reckoning with privilege and belonging, made ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good scholarly work there’s been, despite everything. As we do every year, we ...

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“Wild Swans”, Jung Chang’s 1991 memoir describing her and her family’s experiences under Chinese communism, was one of the most successful non-fiction books of all time. Now, Chang has written a ...