"I began to think of Washington not simply as the capital, the part of the country where power gathered and magnified itself, but as a synecdoche for America. How could a single city hope to capture such staggering multifariousness? I knew it wasn’t possible, yet found the effort worthy of praise."
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Places Journal
Ambitious literature and public policy are each concerned with shaping reality. Perhaps no place embodies the power of artists & policymakers to arrange space & time more persuasively than Washington, D.C.
For "An Unfinished Atlas," Tope Folarin writes about his search for prose, politics & power.
For "An Unfinished Atlas," Tope Folarin writes about his search for prose, politics & power.
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