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Crime, Daughters, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Economic Violence, Fairy Tales, Family, Fathers, France, Gender, Law, Marriage, Memoir, Mothers, Parents and Children, Patriarchy, Sexual Violence, United States
A Hymn to Life, and Strangers: First Thoughts
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Among the Drug-Addled Rogue White Males
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Henning Mankell’s The Dogs of Riga
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Annie Ernaux’s 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature Speech
Bad Bunny, Class, Economics, environment, Europe, Humanities, Photography, Politics, Puerto Rico, Rural-Urban Divide
The Rural-Adjacent Backlash
Albert Camus, Alberto Moravia, Doris Lessing, Education, environment, Fiction, Humanities, Joseph Conrad, Literature, Politics, Race
Not My America, Says Trump. Well, It’s Mine.
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Notes from Jan. 20, 2025
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“Reading the Suffering Body: Schopenhauer and Ethics in Conrad’s ‘Falk: A Reminiscence'”
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