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03/23/2023

Belonging

What's in a Name?

by Usha Raj

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02/13/2023

Morbid Adoration

A De Trop Tour of the Tombs of Paris

by Sadie Agg

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10/17/2022

Baby Bathwater

Determining what is affectionate accumulation or consuming clutter

by Wm. Anthony Connolly

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05/12/2022

Dominique Morisseau’s Fugitive Feelings

A review of Confederates

by Rhoda Feng

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02/10/2022

Racism Through the Eyes of a Child

Growing up in the Jim Crow era

by Carolyn Davis

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02/07/2022

Melody in Tragedy

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and composition through loss

by Caleb Wallis

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11/11/2021

Born to Be Cool

The life and music of Chet Baker

by Matthew Duffus

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11/04/2021

The Pandemic, Murder, Cannibalism, and Me

Pulling lessons from the past, stitch by stitch

by Jeanie Kortum

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10/28/2021

Poe Boy

The ongoing impact of Edgar Allan Poe

by Sudipto Sanyal

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10/15/2021

Orchards for the Masses

Agriculture of past times

by Bernd Brunner

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