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Binyananga Wainana

“Isn’t this great? What a tub? Wonder when they built it—must be before the war.”
“Is it safe, do you think?”
Matano smiles to himself. He looks out at the ferry, and allows himself to see it through their eyes.
Stomach plummets: fear, thrill. Trippy. So real. Smell of old oil, sweat and spices. So exotic.
Color: women in […]

Literary Criticism in Politics

Virginia Senate candidate George Allen, who still has not recovered from a YouTube induced malestrom of discontent over racially charged comments,* is resorting to the lowest of all mud-slinging techniques: literary criticism.
In a press release to the media that Allen had not posted to the press portion of his web site (afraid of blog links?), […]

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