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Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

Olivia Giovetti on Alex Ross's New Book About the Composer

By Olivia Giovetti | September 10, 2020

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Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

Remembering Timothy Findley on His Home Ground

Sherrill Grace on the Life and Legacy of a Great Canadian Writer

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<em>Punching the Air</em> by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, read by Ethan Herisse

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On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

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<em>The Death of Vivek Oji</em> by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

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On the Children's Book So Bad, So Inauthentic... It Was Good?

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"Will I Come to a Miserable End?" Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

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A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

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