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[REVIEW] βAsiaβs Italian Novelist: Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonatoβ by...
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[REVIEW] βThis is How Places Heave: Memory and Longing in Bhaswati Ghoshβs...
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Peter Ho Davies, The Art of Revision, Graywolf Press, 2021. 192 pgs. While I wasnβt particularly aware of the Graywolf Press...
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{ππ‘π‘π’π¨π‘πππ ππ‘π§} Call for Poems: En Route
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[REVIEW] βInterrogative Reflections: Nine Views of Reading Du Fuβ by Marsha...
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Β RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Can Xue (author), Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (translators), I Live in the Slums, Yale University Press, 2020. 344 pgs. Can Xueβs...
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