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Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange
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By Katie Goh
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Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels
Randee Dawn Explores Approaches to Trunk Fiction
By Randee Dawn
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An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine
Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession
By Gabrielle Bellot
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Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces
“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”
By Rosa Castellano
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By The Critic and Her Publics
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