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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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08/02/2021

Oxy

Balancing the pain of life and death

by Rosalind Kaplan

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07/26/2021

The Radicalism of W.E.B. Du Bois

Over the course of his life, the polemicist of the NAACP evolved leftward

by Arvind Dilawar

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07/19/2021

Hooked on Cons

Cons, cults, and conspiracies

by Edwin Battistella

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06/14/2021

David Foster Wallace’s Problematic Tenses

Foster Wallace claimed James Baldwin’s support for ‘Standard White English’ — yet the latter dismissed it long before

by Arvind Dilawar

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06/10/2021

An Apology for Plagiarism

Nothing new under the sun

by Bill Gruber

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05/24/2021

Books and Bias

Rediscovering the writing and ideologies in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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04/22/2021

The Campus Novel Trap

“Novelists often teach out of economic necessity,” but campus life can consequently circumscribe their work.

by Arvind Dilawar

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02/18/2021

Bierce’s Devilish Words

Ambrose Bierce's less than safe spaces

by Colin Fleming

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