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Letting Shakespeare Be 1
- Literature
- November 11, 2024
In a recent piece for the New York Times, Drew Lichtenberg, the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, laments the closing of the California Shakespeare Theater and the widespread decline in productions of Shakespeare across the country. The reasons, he suggests, have to do with many things, including the expense of mounting a
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The Therapeutic Power of Stories 2
- Featured, Health, Literature
- November 8, 2024
Stories hold a powerful sway over the human spirit. They reach us on the deepest levels, moving, inspiring, instructing, and even healing us, as modern therapeutic practice has shown. Stories and poems consolidate and interpret random occurrences and emotional and sensory activity—the raw inputs of experience—into a meaningful whole. This allows us to understand reality
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Friday Comic: A Good Rare Steak 0
- Entertainment
- November 8, 2024
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Does Trump’s Historic Win Call Into Question the Woke Narrative?1
- Culture, Featured, Politics
- November 7, 2024
The details of Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 election point to a substantial political realignment in America. Many voting groups traditionally tied to the Democrat party appear to be moving toward the Republicans, or at least toward Trump and what he represents. Trump made substantial gains among black voters and
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‘Cultural Appropriation’ in Writing: Why Authors Aren’t Restricted to Experience 0
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- November 7, 2024
Going to class rarely makes me feel tense, but this time—sitting in an upper-level writing ethics course—I was scared to speak up. My class was discussing cultural appropriation: whether it was right for majority-race authors to take on minority-race perspectives in their work. My classmates were almost universally against the idea, saying that a person
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Lessons From the Zombie Genre 0
- Culture, Entertainment
- November 7, 2024
Imagine a zombie. What does your zombie look like? How does it move? What does it eat? How does it spend its day? What if any hobbies does it have? More likely than not, you probably pictured a zombie of the George A. Romero variety: a slow-moving reanimated corpse that feasts on the flesh of
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Letting Shakespeare Be 1