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his skin, too, was dark, and his eyes seemed purple or brown, very softly coloured behind his glasses.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Each day, Shukumar noticed, her beauty, which had once overwhelmed him, seemed to fade. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.
Jhumpa Lahiri • Interpreter Of Maladies: A Novel
The American body rejects the Black body.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
On September 11, 2001, a week and a half after school started, I learned I was as far from home as I could be and still be within the United States. On September 12, I watched my Pakistani neighbors plaster their Corollas with I LOVE THE U.S.A. bumper stickers and dress their newborn in a red, white, and blue outfit I’d seen at Marshalls. I didn’t
... See moreKiese Laymon • Heavy: An American Memoir
Pas de question sur l’homosexualité ni sur les nègres, l’auteur de l’article a fait l’impasse sur le sujet. Il songe à l’aborder lui-même, histoire de jeter un froid, mais juge plus prudent de s’en tenir à cette version de son personnage : un petit prolo qui a su tracer sa route jusqu’au sommet de la jet-set sans se laisser impressionner par les
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Limonov (Fiction) (French Edition)
