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Tope Folarin: Literary Critic and Policy Advocate Shaping Cultural Discourse

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Tope Folarin: Literary Critic and Policy Advocate Shaping Cultural Discourse

Tope Folarin, novelist and executive director of the Institute for Policy Studies, writes for The Atlantic on contemporary fiction. His reviews reveal a critic attuned to how literature articulates power, inequality, and moral complexity.

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