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12/21/2018

Out of Thin Hair

An interview with writer and historian, Robert McCracken Peck

by Melinda Lewis

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10/11/2018

General Franco Jumps the Shark

Reflections on the film Raza

by Robert Latona

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03/10/2016

Accented Arias

Jennifer Higdon on opera, Star Wars, and adapting Cold Mountain for the stage

by Maren Larsen

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06/26/2015

Without the South

by Michael Lind

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03/12/2012

The Man from New Jersey

Understanding Buddhism

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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07/27/2011

Classroom Wars

War’s noble purpose?

by Dwight Simon

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06/02/2011

Old Men in New York

by Morgan Meis

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09/16/2010

Only Half the Story

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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09/10/2010

Body Issues

by Tony Perrottet

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