On this edition of The Weekly Reader, big stories from a big country. We review two new American novels: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, and The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honor&eacute;e Fanonne Jeffers. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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