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Love and Loss Collide in Akwaeke Emezi’s You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty

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Originally published in the Sunday, February 12th, 2022 edition of the Stabroek News Photo of Akwaeke Emezi Akwaeke Emezi used to intimidate me. They have bounced from genre to genre, storyform to storyform, leaving ground-breaking and provocative work in their wake since their debut novel Freshwater shook the literary world in 2018. Since then, they …

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Letters and Lovers rule in This is How You Lose the Time War

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Dear reader, Did you know that February is International Correspondence Writing Month (InCoWriMo for short)? The point of this month-long challenge is to slow your communication down, return to pen, paper and post-office, and write one letter a day to anyone locally or abroad, stranger or friend. I can feel your confusion. You came here …

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