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Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Her essays on Russian and African American writers have appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. icon

Watery Roots: The Alex Haley Swimming Pool, Ithaca, NY

By Jennifer Wilson

The writer Alex Haley was born in the city of Ithaca (just south of Ulysses, NY) ...

The Art of the Communist Museum: The Leon Trotsky House in Coyoacán

By Jennifer Wilson

This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery.   Villa Coyoacán, Mexico, home to El Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky, is now a posh ...

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