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Vinay Lal is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and presently holds the Fulbright-Nehru ...

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Lydia Millet is author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections and was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her latest book is We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (W. W. Norton, 2024).