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  • On (Not) Discovering Disability in the World of Jane Austen

    Disabled characters are present in Austen’s novels, but largely invisible in her cinematic remakes

    Jan 27 - Pasquale S. Toscano
    books Four cast members of "Fire Island" stand in a line and look skeptically toward something out of frame.

    “Hysterical” Women Helped Me Regain My Voice

    Like so many women, I’d learned accommodating behavior throughout my childhood

    Jan 10 - Andria Kennedy
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    Eating Well Is a Portal Into Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”

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    Nov 29 - Hannah Walhout
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    Does Ovid Still Matter Today?

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    Nov 8 - Stephanie McCarter
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    My Nostalgia for Enid Blyton is Complicated

    Reckoning with the racism of my favorite childhood author

    Nov 2 - Pranay Somayajula
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    Reading Addiction Memoirs Fueled Mine

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    Oct 25 - Christy Tending
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    I Used to Think Werner Herzog Was Brilliant

    But his novel, "The Twilight World" set in the Philippines without any Filipino characters, changed my mind

    Oct 18 - Cindy Fazzi
    culture A sun sets serenely behind distant mountains overlooking a lake.

    I Can’t Separate America’s Mass Shootings From Its Long History of Racial Terrorism

    White America is impotent and vengeance is served in Percival Everett’s "The Trees"

    Oct 4 - Norrell Edwards
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    Jamaica Kincaid Challenges Americans to Stay Home in “A Small Place”

    Before the pandemic I thought I could go wherever I wanted whenever I wanted

    Sep 29 - Laurann Herrington
    books Screenshot from HBO's White Lotus
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