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Sep 2020
59m 47s

Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction

The New York Times
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Akhtar discusses "Homeland Elegies," and Marc Lacey talks about "Cry Havoc," by Michael Signer, and "The Violence Inside Us," by Chris Murphy. 
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