Fiction: New & Noteworthy
By LARBNovember 20, 2013
The Past is Not Dead
Time and Race in Kiese Laymon’s Long Division
It is the Calm and Silent Waters That Drown You
Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light
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