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Jagged Blind Hop Zozzle
Even ninety years later, the 1920s still roar in the collective imagination of writers, readers, painters, and dreamers everywhere. It was a wild time when flappers and philanderers challenged taboos. The guns of the Great War were...
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True
Death, at the grim hand of cancer, mines a person of the body he or she spent a lifetime in. It devours, destroys, and erodes everything. Its changes move too slowly to be seen daily, but over weeks and months, family and friends are...
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Lights of Mankind
Humans have always been fascinated with looking at themselves. They pass down myths about the dangers of trying to kiss one’s own reflection. They use self-recognition to test interspecies intelligence. And 17,300 years after the first...
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Islam's Fire
Novels, like any art form, are collaborations: both writer and reader must trust each other. The reader trusts the writer to create a world populated by multidimensional characters who can be empathized with. The writer trusts the reader...
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Dating Basics 101
The only thing more awkward for a guy than the uncomfortable conversation with dad about how to talk to women is reaching adulthood without dad’s sage advice. So many dangers mine the road to romance. If the movies can teach a young...
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Dark Beauty
Santa Fe artists are fond of pointing out that the sky in New Mexico is the landscape. Whether a startling blue backdrop against the brown and pink shades of stucco facades or a swirling rage of storm clouds cleaved by blinding bolts of...
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Amazing Adventures of a Nobody
The line between television and real life, never clear to begin with, has grown a bit foggier with the release of Leon Logothetis’ new memoir, "Amazing Adventures of a Nobody". Based on the reality-television show by the same name,...
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I Am the Antichrist
Presenting itself as the first to drive a nail “into the stinking coffin of your rotten Christian religion,” "I Am the Antichrist", by Kostyantyn Sitalo, angrily and disjointedly attempts to portray Christianity as a monolithic...