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Rachel DeWoskin
What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?
“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”
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Rachel DeWoskin
| December 10, 2025
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Rachel DeWoskin on the Literary and Political Value of Rage
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| June 24, 2019
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