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Home & Away features tributes to James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and Marcel Proust alongside writing by Amy Hempel, Julio Cortazar, Amitav Ghosh, Anne Carson, and W. G. Sebald. PEN members reflect on what great books have never been translated into English.



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