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Jehanne Dubrow
Fun, Feminine and Fundamental: In Defense of Frivolity
Jehanne Dubrow Asks Us to Reconsider Our Denigration of the Lighter Side of Life
By
Jehanne Dubrow
| August 31, 2026
On Reading Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
As a Military Spouse
Jehanne Dubrow: “Writing is itself an act of metamorphosis; it fixes a narrative to the page so that our small lives endure beyond us.”
By
Jehanne Dubrow
| March 4, 2025
What Can the Way We Eat and Enjoy Food Tell Us About Ourselves?
Jehanne Dubrow On Taste, The Doorway to Our Inner Architecture
By
Jehanne Dubrow
| August 12, 2022
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