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05/25/2023

Dried Eggs and Bloody Underwear

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My First Year of Menstruation with a Mother Going Through Menopause

by Lori Mooney

05/22/2023

My Brother is Toast

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Growing Out of My Sibling's Shadow

by Lev Raphael

05/18/2023

Why Mr. Darcy Has Always Been Black-ish

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Jane Austen’s characters reveal commonalities across racial lines

by Liliana Hartfield

05/15/2023

Beautiful and Damned

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What we lose when we only read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

by Colin Fleming

05/11/2023

The Lost Art of Showing Up

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Don't Skip on the Social Salad

by Maria Hewett

05/08/2023

The Allure of Medievalism

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When Secular Life and Religious Practice Were Linked

by John Capista

05/04/2023

Will You Believe Me?

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This doesn't sound like him at all

by Christine Birbalsingh

05/01/2023

Hyphens, Buckles, Roots, and Wings

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Letting Go of Holding it Together

by Gemma Singh

04/27/2023

All the Information is on the Task

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The Greatest Comedy Show of All Time?

by Joe Giambrone

04/24/2023

The Locus

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A Writer's Quest for a City That Inspires

by Thomas Leclair

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