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Love, Loss, and What We Watched: The Case for Tracking Your Film and TV Consumption

Love, Loss, and What We Watched: The Case for Tracking Your Film and TV Consumption

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On the Many Miracles of Aretha Franklin

On the Many Miracles of Aretha Franklin

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In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

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Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

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Bruce Clark on the 3,000-Year Story of the Birthplace of Western Civilization

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