Boris Akunin and Walter Mosley: Fiction from Fact
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Walter Mosley and Boris Akunin—two venerated authors with sweeping careers that cross cultures, genres, and language barriers—come together for a rare conversation. How do these leading historical and crime fiction writers use contemporary political circumstances, and their own political activism, to inform their work?