Topic: Binyavanga Wainaina
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Keep Calm Good Reads: On America's limits, Middle Eastern feminism, Indian authors
Some of the best long-form journalism this week deals with America's foreign policy limitations, sexual politics in the Middle East, African stereotypes, and an Indian publishing boom.
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How foreign writers make it to US bookshelves
They have to fight to overcome one glaring statistic: Only 3 percent of the books published in the US each year are books in translation.
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Congo is more than rape and minerals
There are political dynamics and logic underlying the brutality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that journalists need to explain.
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Kenya's rising culture club
After social upheaval, clubs and small publishers have sprung up in the East African nation as new outlets for literary expression.
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