Daring to Offend

Talking about race is fraught these days, so it took guts for Paul Beatty to write his novel “The Sellout.” It’s a satire about a young black man who winds up on trial at the Supreme Court. And along the way, he enslaves an old friend and re-segregates the local high school.

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