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Read Features & Reviews Reviews Identity as a Hall of Mirrors: Descent by Lauren Russell Jesi BuellOctober 7, 2020 This book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Quintessential Quarantine Read: Paige Lewis’s Space Struck Julie Marie WadeSeptember 25, 2020 Narratives, reflections—“bright particulars,” every one.Read