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November 12, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize–Winning Novel Examines a Betrayal in Apartheid South Africa
“The Promise” is a portrait of a society where words lose their meaning.
August 15, 2013
Charles R. Larson
From the Stacks: “Midnight’s Children”
May 23, 1981
October 16, 2012
Daniel D'Addario
Alterna-Booker—Different Prize, Same Antics

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