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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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A Place to Pray
… on the outside, but Lao Buddhist temples on the inside—got complaints, were shut down, vandalized. Neighbors gossiped, … after his mother moved into the temple, Boun Lai’s father died. He was put in a wooden box—a makeshift coffin, the lid … it really was about the money.  Boun Lai recalled the funerals of other men, one in particular who had been placed …
Of Units and Unities
… The Waves. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. All Passion Spent. By V. Sackville-West. … Doran and Company. $2.50. Maid in Waiting. By John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $2.50. The … diction and to the same tempo. Who marries whom and who dies how is of no moment save that it be available for use …
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Details From the Fogg Museum
… people had been forced to labor and for which so many had died. In the photograph of Sojourner Truth, her hands are … but her master had promised to free her a year early, in 1826. When he reneged, saying that she was less productive … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …
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Street Fighters
… dungeon where practiced hands could battle,” as its website reads. Of his customers, the owner of Next Level, … But here he’s a hero, and now he’s methodically working out combos against the computer. It feels disrespectful to take pictures. Nobody …
Counteracting the Powers of Darkness
… was distrusted—stews, chowders, casseroles. One of her commonest utterances was the world vile! stretched out to … with his finger. Not only was I a dinosaur freak, I was also tired of sleeping with a beat-up old hand puppet that I … my mother. She once removed a thermometer from my mouth, studied its findings, muttered 103.6 and slapped me across the …
A Plantation Retrospect
… pigmentation. Some years ago I said in an address of welcome that I was asked to deliver by, the English-Speaking … it that he did not suffer for lack of medicine or invalid diet. And I can personally bear witness that, as far back as … In other words, I think that it was truer to “the kindred points of Heaven and Home,” more responsive to “Pure …
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