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More War
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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War, What IS It Good For?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Malcolm F$@king Gladwell!
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Y'all Ready For This?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Tana vs. Tony: How to Solve a Murder Mystery
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Bungle in the Jungle, Salt Life at the Beach
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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From Sayreville to Sicily: The Effect of Setting on the Psyche
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Trust No One: Unreliable Narration in Life and Art
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Weezer, Creativity, and the Nullity of Identity
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Serendipitous Miracle of Creativity
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May 20, 2025 |
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Money: It's a Gas
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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A Transcendental Perspective on the L.A. Fires
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Medieval Times, Good Times?
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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The Suburban/American Scream
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The Horror? The Horror!
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Meet the New Me (Same as the Old Me)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Insane in the Mundane
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Why Shakespeare?
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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The Play's the Thing: A Shakespeare Quiz
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Shakespeare: Timeless (But a Man of His Times)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Stayin' Alive: Could You Survive the Apocalypse? Would You Want to?
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May 19, 2024 |
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What Is It Like to Be a Dog?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Strange Winds: A Meditation on Contamination
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Earworm Exorcism!
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Looming Existential Dread: Robotic and Real
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Meta-Magical Mystery Tour
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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There's No "I" in AI
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Artificial Intelligence Invades High School English Class
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Infinite Wellness
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Traveling Through the Dark (including an enlightening update)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Get Out? Or Stay In?
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Capitalism . . . 1980s Style
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Let's Talk About Celine Dion
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Please Stand So Close to Me
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Hey Sheeple! Powerful Eyes are Watching You
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Spenser, Morality, and the Jock Ethic
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Colleen Hoover and the Art of the Inner Monologue
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Slouching Towards Something
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The 1970s . . . Characterized by Four Crime Novels
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Ringworld: Get Down with Some 70s Sci-fi
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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1215 AD: Terrible Music But Great Charters
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Boil and Bubble, The Irish Troubles
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Donna Tartt + Poisonous Snakes = Hell Yes!
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Autopocalypse Now (Carmageddon Later)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Eclectic New Zealand Acid Trap
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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The (Murder) Mystery of Existence
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May 30, 2023 |
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Reality Loser
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May 17, 2023 |
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The Mysteries of Your Musical Taste: Part 2
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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The Mysteries of Your Musical Taste: Part 1
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Revolutions, Reconstructions, and a Mountain Lion
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Life is Scarier Than Death: A Case for Realistic Fiction
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Mark Leyner vs. The Internet
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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A Couple of Crucial Creative Concepts
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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William Carlos Williams vs. Wallace Stevens: Adjective Smackdown!
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Tomorrow, I Will Play Video Games, Tomorrow
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Riley Sager, You Give Genre Fiction a Bad Name
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Duck Duck Oil Sands
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Beware The Candy House
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Stars, Caves, and Everything in Between
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Livin' La Vida Lapvona
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Charismatic Megafauna
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Adrift in the Digital Doldrums
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Carrie Soto Is Wack
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Liberation Daze
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Southbound with S.A. Cosby
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Apocalypse New
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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All the (not so) Pretty Horses
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Playing the Tomorrow Game
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Dave Grohl and Langston Hughes Rock the House
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Revising Our Notions About Pirates
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Funny How? David Sedaris and Randall Munroe
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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City on Fire . . . with Mob Tropes
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Dr. Moreau (and his jaguar hybrid daughter)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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The Road Not Taken is Dark and Deep
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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John Franzen at the Crossroads of Hyperrealism
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Ghettoside vs. Murderbot
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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The Foundling by Ann Leary
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Colson Whitehead . . . Location, Location, Location
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Beyond the Verge with Joy Williams
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Beyond The Expanse
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Geoff Dyer . . . Beginnings, Endings, and Indecision
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Jun 26, 2022 |