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Daft Punks

David Getman

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The Giving Tree

Jessica Crewe and Jessie Hock

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Marta Figlerowicz

Contemporaries Essays

Interview: Teju Cole

For all the critical acclaim his novels have received—and deserve—I suspect that more readers know Teju Cole through his writing on the Internet than have read Open City or Every…

Contemporaries Essays

Interview: Sofia Samatar

I invited Sofia Samatar to come to UT’s “Symposium for African Writers” but I never asked her if she thought of herself as an African writer. In this interview, she…

Contemporaries Essays

Interview: Tope Folarin

Before Tope Folarin won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing, it might not have been completely clear that he was an African writer. His parents are Nigerian, of course,…

Contemporaries Essays

Interview: Miral al-Tahawy

It’s hard to talk about a writer like Miral al-Tahawy without falling into stale clichés. To “read” an Arab writer through how she does or does not cover, to “discover”…