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06/02/2022

Be Happy Happy

Minding the gaps in Singapore

by Amanda Jaffe

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03/28/2022

Portrait of a Lady

My mother's silence

by Lev Raphael

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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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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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10/01/2020

Literally and Seriously

Ways to get past “messaging”?

by Jeffrey Mitchell

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08/10/2020

The Best Book in the World

The Word-Drunk, Foot-Sore, Tree-Hugging, Peak-Scaling Prose of the Inimitable Robert Macfarlane

by David Kirby

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08/15/2019

On the Line

The dead cat trope

by Eli Zeger

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04/08/2019

Strait to Istanbul

Traveling through Istanbul

by Adam Jacot de Boinod

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02/28/2019

Living on the Margins

Navigating transculturalism

by Natasha Burge

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