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For years I tried, and mostly failed, to tell the story of my childhood molestation. I played a kind of literary ...

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When E.E. Charlton-Trujillo’s Fat Angie trilogy kicked off in 2013, it put fatness at the forefront of a troubled lesbian teenager’s journey toward self-acceptance. Two years later, Julie ...

it will include contributions by director Walter Salles (whose “I’m Still Here” recently won the Oscar for international film), award-winning novelists Jorge Volpi and Wendy Guerra ...

Socialist and anti-colonial politics had a profound influence on Sembène, who was also one of Africa’s great novelists. Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène listens during a film class ...