Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.