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When Poets Speak of Life and Speak in Prose
Reviewing Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ and Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘Maud Martha’
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C.S. Lewis: Before Narnia
When We Didn’t Know Jack. Reviewing ‘C.S. Lewis in America’ by Mark Noll
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Hunger for Connection: Being Known by Finding Your Voice
Fighting with Words: Reviewing Richard Wright’s Classic Memoir, ‘Black Boy (American Hunger)’
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Liberation Narratives: Out from Slavery
Exemplars of Pioneering Texts: Frederick Douglass’s ‘Narrative’ and Harriet Jacobs’s ‘Incidents’
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Declaration of an Independent
Self-Made Man? Reviewing the ‘Autobiography’ of Benjamin Franklin
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Can’t Say It There: ‘Down with Fidel!’
The Revolution Will Be Illuminated! Reviewing Edel Rodriguez’s Stunning Graphic Memoir, ‘Worm’
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Take You Higher—and Then What?
The Perils of Personal Choice: Reviewing Sly Stone’s ‘Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)’
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She Wrote Her Way to Freedom
The Mystery of America’s First Black Female Novelist: Reviewing ‘The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts’ by Gregg Hecimovich
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‘A People Born of Trauma and Miracle’
Biography Bigger than One Life: Reviewing ‘How Far to the Promised Land’ by Esau McCaulley
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George Orwell: Terrific Writer, Terrible Husband
Do We Cancel? Reviewing ‘Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life’ by Anna Funder
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Women Saints and Scientists You Should Know
The Inspiring Lives of Maria Skobtsova, Henrietta Leavitt, and Hildegard of Bingen
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‘Among the Dragons, There Will Always Be Heroes’
Escape to Safety. Reviewing Wayétu Moore’s ‘The Dragons, the Giant, the Women’
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