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The Struggle Continues
Zinzi Clemmons’s new essay collection, Freedom, explores fights for personal and political liberation.

Butterfly’s Wings
Reyna Grande’s Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget is a standout collection that tackles the scars left by immigration and racism.

Sex and the City
In Lovers XXX, Allie Rowbottom imagines a porn industry pas de deux.

Suburban Territory
Vanessa Hua’s pandemic novel, Coyoteland, revolves around the tension and conflicts among several neighboring families of different racial backgrounds.

Slashed from the Headlines
Jordan Harper’s grisly new neo-noir plumbs the depths of Hollywood depravity.
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