LEVINE, MA ’77, PhD ’81, in The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press, $29.95. “In short, the man who in the late 1830s was brutalized by Irish workers at Baltimore’s Fell’s Point had no problem in casting at least some of the blame for the poverty exacerbated by the famine on the Irish workers themselves.” SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT, Stegner fellow 1989-91, in Spider Season Cold River Press, $14.95. Kevin Young, also a former Stegner fellow (1992-94), contributes a comical critique of Rachel Dolezal’s attempt at passing for black, while Ward shares the discomfiting experience of ordering personalized genetic testing that illuminated her complex racial ancestry. Drawing inspiration from James Baldwin’s 53-year-old meditation on race, The Fire Next Time, Ward, a former Stegner fellow (2008-10), enlists 17 noted writers to share essays and poems in a ranging and nuanced exploration of the discontent with race relations in America today. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward, ’99, MA ’00 Scribner, $25.
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