Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written for publications including the Guardian, the Nation, and the New York Review of Books.

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  July/August 2010: Interview with Lady Saw
• January 2009: Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  The author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun rescues the historical novel from tight dresses and Renaissance Florence.