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Summer Bonus Content
• INTERVIEW: It’s Got to Have Balls: Denise Oswald on Soft Skull’s Future
• INTERVIEW: Kamila Shamsie Discusses Her New Novel, Burnt Shadows
• REVIEW: Mouroir by Breyten Breytenbach
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• Four Greek Writers That You Should (and Can) Read: Translator Karen Emmerich in San Francisco
• PEN Honors Chinese Writer, Dissident, and Political Prisoner Liu Xiaobo
• The Complete Cosmicomics: Full Contents and Details On Seven Newly Translated Stories
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