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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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10/28/2021

Poe Boy

The ongoing impact of Edgar Allan Poe

by Sudipto Sanyal

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10/07/2021

Close Encounters With Tolstoy

War and Peace through a different lens

by Rhoda Feng

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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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08/12/2021

Riffing the Prose

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

by Colin Fleming

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07/22/2021

Revisiting Dante’s Florence

Experiencing Dante's "circles of hell"

by Sarah Odishoo

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06/24/2021

Time (out) in Tuscany

Where literature and history meet

by John Capista

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04/01/2021

Chasing Shadows

The pleasures (and perils) of staring into the shadow

by Erik Mortenson

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03/03/2021

My Father Through Mann’s Eyes

Anthony Mann's and Cormac McCarthy's west

by Greg Gerke

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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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