Review: A shocking act at sea damns ‘The Zorg’ The Middle Passage has been a touchstone of storytelling for generations — the television series “Roots” and Charles Johnson’s award-winning “Middle Passage” spring to mind — but no artistic work can truly translate its atrocities. Hence the necessity of nonfiction: Siddharth Kara’s wrenching, superb “The Zorg” depicts a voyage of the damned as a synecdoche for slavery and its legacy. “There ...

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