A review of Connor Towne O’Neill’s book, ‘Down Along with That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy.’
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“The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture” Aims to Expand the Conversation
“The Opioid Epidemic,” edited by Travis D. Stimeling, is a collection of essays expanding the conversation surrounding opioid addiction.
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Elizabeth Catte Connects America’s Past With Its Present in New Release, “Pure America”
An interview with ELizabeth Catte about her new book, “Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virgina.”
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Nick Flynn on “This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire” and Making the Unconscious Conscious
An interview with Nick Flynn about his new book, “This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire.”
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“One Writer’s Beginnings” Forges Connections Across Time and Place
The new edition of Eudora Welty’s instructive memoir “One Writer’s Beginnings” features an introduction by Natasha Trethewey.
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A Correlation Between Artistry and Solitude
Fenton Johnson’s “At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life” examines artists from Thoreau to Rabindranath Tagore to Nina Simone to study the relationship between solitude and artistry.
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A Tapestry of Connectivity in “I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird”
Susan Cerulean’s recent memoir “I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird” chronicles both her end-of-life care for her octogenarian father and her stewardship of seabirds on an isolated Florida island.
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“Dog Flowers”: Excavation and Tribute
Danielle Geller’s new memoir “Dog Flowers” is a complex story of family, and addiction.
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Julia Nitz on “Belles and Poets”: “Literary Allusion is Cultural Currency”
An interview with Julia Nitz on her new book “Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women.”
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Environmental Injustice in Rural America
Environmentalist Catherine Coleman Flowers’ recent book “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret” addresses waste as an issue of racial and environmental justice.
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