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A Review of Jazz and Palm Wine by Emmanuel Dongala

January 22, 2018

Trevor Payne

Translated by Dominic Thomas (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017) A fun fact I didn’t know before experiencing the short stories of Emmanuel Dongala: there are two Congos, with the two capital cities, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, directly across the Congo … Continued

A Review of Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! by Zachary Tyler Vickers

May 29, 2017

Jeff Bursey

(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016) A strip mall and a tornado, quirky products and people bothered by subterranean grievances, interoffice rivalries and politics, a Venn diagram approach to characters and events, and a town that is damned by the … Continued

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