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  • Fighting Injustice Starts at Home, Not Abroad

    Fighting Injustice Starts at Home, Not Abroad0

    Although it is a recent phenomenon, global immediacy is skewing our sense of justice. The distance between countries is now bridged by our smartphones and we’re becoming a culture able to rattle off foreign leaders while clueless about the names of our own local mayors. The hyperconnectivity of the 21st century keeps us tuned in

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  • The Lost World of Manners, Dress, and Literature

    The Lost World of Manners, Dress, and Literature0

    Recently I revisited a famous antiquarian bookshop. Marks & Co. closed decades ago, but it lives on in Helene Hanff’s memoir “84, Charing Cross Road” and its companion 1987 film starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. My library had both the book and the DVD, so I spent an evening traveling back in time to 1950s London

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  • Echoes of the Resurrection in Literary Arts

    Echoes of the Resurrection in Literary Arts0

    The literary arts are predicated on the possibility of transformation and rebirth. As every first-year creative writing student knows, fiction is about the possibility of soul-change – that’s what makes it interesting to us. Great stories reveal how the events of the plot reshape the interior life of the character, developing and changing the character.

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