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POETRY: For the Fat of Mind

by Carol Wierzbicki

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Celebrity athletes, direct-mail promo copy, popular sitcoms, even business lunches—these are the deliciously weird found objects Sala, a veteran of the advertising world, chooses to dissect, in all their unintentional irony. ...

FICTION: This Book

by Sabrina Seelig

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ome books are meant to be read on a day off, in the country or in a park, that make vivid the pleasure of a warm breeze and nothing to do. ...

The New Psychedelia

by Ellen Pearlman

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Three books have appeared, heralding a quiet resurgence in certain circles of the use of hallucinogenic drugs for spiritual or visionary purposes. ...

CULTURE: Big girls on campus

by Erica Wetter

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Educating women risks endangering the perpetuation of the species—or so argued Harvard professor Edward H. Clarke in his nineteenth-century bestseller, Sex in Education, or, a Fair Chance for the Girls. According to Clarke, a girl who studied during her period arrested the development of her ovaries, ...

Typecasting: A History of Stereotype

by Maxwell Heller

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In a chapter of Typecasting that explores Western exploitation of indigenous peoples, authors Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen take readers to Chicago’s Columbian Exposition (1893), a “colossal side show… six hundred feet wide and a mile long,” where tourists gawked at exhibits designed to illustrate the immoral, primitive, and hypersexual tendencies of foreign cultures. ...

POETRY: Act and Aftermath

by William Corbett

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In that poem Heaney watches his father dig in the family potato patch and remembers his grandfather’s prowess at cutting turf. ...

FICTION: Inventing personal history

by Eleanor Bader

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When Jennifer Natalya Fink was growing up, she repeatedly questioned her family about why they’d trekked from Lithuania to Brazil to the United States. ...