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Bailey Sincox

Bailey Sincox is a Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows. She is currently writing a book about female revenge in Shakespearean drama and contemporary film. Beyond the academy, her writing has appeared in The Drift, Harvard Review, The Rambling, and Los Angeles Review of Books. icon

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B-Sides: Colson Whitehead’s “Apex Hides the Hurt”

By Bailey Sincox

“Whitehead’s satire takes aim … at a capitalist system that senses the profits to be made from proclaiming that systemic racism is a thing of the past.”

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