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06/30/2022

Van Ghosts

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The long hard road of being Vincent Van Gogh

by Matt Hanson

06/27/2022

The Status of the Book in the Age of Digital Media 

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A trip to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

by Paula Marantz Cohen

06/23/2022

Changing Seasons

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April showers hopes for maybe this time, flowers

by Rachel Coppe

06/16/2022

Father’s Day

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How Día de los Muertos Became My Father’s Day

by Julie Zigoris

06/13/2022

Walking Words, Words Walking

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There’s never been a better to read James Joyce’s Ulysses (don’t be scared!)

by Colin Fleming

06/09/2022

The Strange Afterlife of the Vikings 

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Why are we still so interested?

by Bernd Brunner

06/06/2022

A Good Idea

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A deer caught in a fence

by Aaron Burch

06/02/2022

Be Happy Happy

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Minding the gaps in Singapore

by Amanda Jaffe

05/26/2022

A New Scar in Time

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Marcel Proust, art, and time

by Greg Gerke

05/23/2022

Death Lessons

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Distraught grievers, graceful Graces, and tattooed ladies

by Larry Patten

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