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Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan  is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina and the author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, among other books.

Ralph Ellison

Visible Man

An intimate view of a great American writer

by Randall Kenan | Monday, December 02, 2019

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2nd Look

So Help Me God

by Ted Widmer

Many presidential traditions have remained the same over the years, but the inaugural address has evolved. As the nation watches Joe Biden sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, revisit Ted Widmer’s essay on what he found by reading each of the previous addresses.

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