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05/19/2022

A Year Without DMX

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It's Dark and Hell is Hot in our hearts and Honda Accords

by Akshay Pendyal

05/16/2022

 Megan Walsh’s The Subplot

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Reviewing the state of contemporary Chinese literature

by Jeremy Ray Jewell

05/12/2022

Dominique Morisseau’s Fugitive Feelings

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A review of Confederates

by Rhoda Feng

05/09/2022

Theft from the Author

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Literary pilfering through the ages, from Shakespeare to Cormac McCarthy

by Vincent Czyz

05/05/2022

The Senior Song Book

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Making music with best old friends

by Marvin Weisbord

05/02/2022

The Finding and Making of “Saints & Symbols”

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Patterns, datasets, and Vladimir Nabokov

by David M. Rubin

04/25/2022

Like the “Roadrunner”

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Is Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" the greatest rock track of all time?

by Matt Hanson

04/21/2022

The Lade Leaves Us Longing 

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Reading Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree in the Lade Braes, Scotland

by Q Manivannan

04/18/2022

Diving the Gulf

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Gazing at time's architecture

by Vincent Czyz

04/14/2022

Department of Lost and Found

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Taking the long way

by Lynn Sikkink

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