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Mapping the History of Slavery in New York

By Ada Reso, Maria Robles, and Elsa Eli Waithe

Decolonize Hipsters

By Grégory Pierrot

Gina Frangello: Truth and Consequences

By Kelly Thompson

Estranged Modernisms

By Spencer Lee-Lenfield

Rebecca Gayle Howell

Rebecca Gayle Howell is the author of Render / An Apocalypse, selected by Nick Flynn for the 2012 Cleveland State University First Book Prize. She is also the translator of Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books, 2011). “You Can’t Tell the Truth” is excerpted from her current manuscript, a purgatory set in West Texas.
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You Can’t Tell the Truth

By Rebecca Gayle Howell March 17, 2014

We talk about leaving here as if / it’s walking out a door.

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