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This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

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By Rebecca Romney | January 15, 2019

A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

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The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

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An Unnecessarily Close Reading of <em>That</em> Scene in <em>Portnoy's Complaint</em>

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Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder

By Emily Temple | January 11, 2019

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

Feasting with the Ghosts of “The Dead”

By Leslie Pariseau | January 10, 2019

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

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the music of light."">"We may aptly term color the music of light."

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