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“During their long walks the females are dots on the map, slowly moving across a landscape of dry washes and desert vegetation.”Read Lydia Millet’s story “Tortoise Station,”which appears in Volume 6 ofEmergence Magazine. | Lit HubFiction
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“I was hardly the first Black American tosee the need for escape.” Nell Irvin Painter examines the limitations of America’s prevailing racial ideology. | New York Review of Books
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