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Jennifer Howard

Jennifer Howard is a former contributing editor and columnist for The Washington Post and a former senior reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education. A frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, she has written for Slate, Bookforum, Fine Books & Collections, and Humanities magazine, among many other publications. Her fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Collagist, Blue Moon Review, the collection D.C. Noir, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC.


Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Jennifer Howard on How We Came to Strive for Material Excess
September 2, 2020  By Jennifer Howard
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