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05/26/2022

A New Scar in Time

Marcel Proust, art, and time

by Greg Gerke

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05/09/2022

Theft from the Author

Literary pilfering through the ages, from Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy

by Vincent Czyz

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05/02/2022

The Finding and Making of “Saints & Symbols”

Patterns, datasets, and Vladimir Nabokov

by David M. Rubin

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04/12/2022

When Reading in the Dark Turns on the Light

How inscriptions brought Ireland to Indiana

by Kristin Czarnecki

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03/17/2022

Theses on Sugar Man

Sixto Rodriguez and the challenge to "posterity"

by Sam Kahn

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03/14/2022

Lacan’s Mistake

The desire of the unconscious

by David Stromberg

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01/06/2022

Of Time and the City

The past and future beneath the surface

by John Capista

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10/04/2021

Reading the Self

Reflections on Paul Auster's City of Glass

by Matthew Duffus

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09/21/2021

What Yeats Has To Do With It

WB Yeats is shunned and neglected now but could be a source of insight for a techie world

by Frances McCue

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08/12/2021

Riffing the Prose

What Toni Morrison's Jazz did for jazz, and vice versa

by Colin Fleming

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