Protestors topple confederate statues

Toward New Symbols and Platforms

NonfictionSeptember 20, 2017

Interrogating our national symbols is necessary to disrupting and dismantling power, but so is erecting new symbols and stories, or rather amplifying and holding space for stories that have… More

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Salman Rushdie on writing, inspired by The Tin Drum. Reading from a bookshop in Cambridge where he bought his copy aged 20. (Excerpt from Granta 15, Spring 1985, p180). #StandwithSalman ⁦@PENamerica⁩

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