Novelist Susan Bender says that a literary understanding would have prevented the Trayvon Martin killing.
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Vague Identity Adjectives Killed Trayvon
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Teaching Lit as a Public Mission
Teaching at a public liberal arts colleges shapes has influenced how I approach literature.
Books That Have Shaped America
The Library of Congress names 91 books that shaped America.
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The Healing Power of Talking about Race
Race, as we learned from watching a play based on student experiences with the subject, is more painful when we avoid it than we we confront it head-on.
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Fed, Rafa, Djoker–A Sibling Drama
Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are like the brothers in a Dostoevsky novel or a Grimm Brothers fairy tale: the two older brothers focus on each other and then the unassuming younger brother comes in and takes over.
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America Encourages the Vagabond Self
Looking at the United States from the vantage point of Iran, Nafisi writes that it was America’s vagrant nature that she connected to. She writes that America “somehow encourages this vagabond self.”
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The Prizefighter vs. the Yokel
Sports Saturday So my tennis idol, Roger Federer, is out of the French Open. Before the semi-finals. Federer’s astounding streak of 23 straight appearances in Grand Slam semi-final matches is one of the great streaks in sports and will never be approached. (To get a sense of its magnitude, consider that Rod Laver and Ivan […]
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