“We by no means hold that ‘fiction’ is a meaningless category […] but we do believe that what counts as accountability to our historical subjects, our readers a

“We by no means hold that ‘fiction’ is a meaningless category […] but we do believe that what counts as accountability to our historical subjects, our readers and our own communities is not singular or to be dictated prior to engaging in historical study.” The flip side of refusing the idea of objective truth is losing the ability to reject objective lies.