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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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08/12/2021

Riffing the Prose

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

by Colin Fleming

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01/14/2021

My Mother’s Letter

A taste of the upper crust

by John Skoyles

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