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A More Novelistic Approach

June 5, 2025December 18, 2025 Peter Starr

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We do not usually associate wisdom with beginners, but here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.

Chinua Achebe, “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie”

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Something Else Stands Beside It

June 5, 2025December 18, 2025 Peter Starr

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What is both unfortunate and unjust is the pain the person dispossessed is forced to bear in the act of dispossession itself and subsequently the trauma of a diminished existence…. The psychology of the dispossessed can be truly frightening.

Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile

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