Meeting Grandma Munby
Sam Hawksmoor
‘Scat.’ She told the racoon. It just looked at her for a second and went back to eating.`
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Pulitzer
Oswaldo Jimenez
“Let me tell you about my lucky chair,” said the man wearing the ill-fitting tuxedo jacket, while nursing a cocktail in his hands.
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Nail Art
Michelle D'costa
We either hide from ourselves or from others. Kanav hid from himself as well as the world. His left hand’s small finger was very different from the rest of his nine fingers.
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The Mother who chained
up her son
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
My
cousin, Abdul Razak, had barely been eighteen when old traditions
and folklore had forced him out of his family and made him marry
a seventeen-year-old woman, Salma...
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Dinner at Fisherman's Wharf
Martin Green
I thought of the Buena Vista. The Berkeley gang would meet at a downtown bar on Friday night and usually someone knew of a party going on. The next morning, Sunday, we’d meet at the BV...
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The Timeless & Terrifying Majesty of "Nessun Dorma"
James Campion 2.13.25
The story of Tarandot, the libretto written by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, takes place in China, and concerns a suitor for the Princess Tarandot
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Madeleine Collis review
Mansfield Park takes the feminine ideal in a direction
so far north of any modern reality its almost unfathomable
to believe in such a world.
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds.
Penguin Press, New York, 2020.
Charlie Dickinson review
An ambitious book, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times is a cultural biography delivering an unforgettable portrait of our greatest president...
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