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The Grand Temptation
… for existential transformation. Something about the metals in its sandy soil catalyzing metaphysical shifts—I don’t … tells you there is. These are all things people dream up to comfort themselves against the scary feeling that none of … He’s a lively man. A biochemist with shaky hands who studies ions, the particles that carry the electricity that …
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The Conquest of Inner Space
… process of the suns. As to the increasing purpose I have no competence to speak, but it’ the thoughts of men have been … the globe that the species inhabits. They are agreed also that this 1·esult is due, not to any inherent defect in … demands, not the relegation to the background of such studies, but their strengthening and broadening by all possible …
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A Pen of Fire
… spoke bluntly as the Confederacy’s leading editor. When he died in Richmond just before the Confederacy’s final defeat … called the last Jeffersonian to hold public office; he has also been called a brooding proslavery fanatic. Clearly the … individual who denounced, in his paper, all northern men, coming south of a given line, as scoundrels, cheats, and …
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Lost With Waters
…   The following post by Alex Koplow is part of our online companion to our  Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood.  … independent route allowed him to make a stranger and bloodier movie, and it also let him hire me. I’d been a makeup … Koplow is originally from Virginia and now tutors with the 826LA writing center. His writing has been published by JMWW, …
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Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000”
… Trying to Keep Faith: Adrienne Rich’s “Usonian Journals 2000” In the “Artworks (II)” section of “Usonian … Rich’s work of the last two decades imagines and embodies a jazz-inflected process that bears witness to … a temple to greed. Staring into the political abyss, she comes to the realization that “I was no longer connected …
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The Dadaab Suite
… camp in the world. (Is it coincidental that this camp is also in Africa, the most historically neglected continent … whose dust-covered faces, hands, and feet turned their bodies into sand ghosts, my children were back home in … and dispensations so acutely, I truly believed my comfort did not authorize me to speak. And further, hadn’t I …
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