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The Word—and Weird—of God

An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson

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“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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Talking Pictures

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“Miniature Snowstorm” by Rosamund Stanhope

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 02, 2021
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“History shows that many—perhaps millions—of Americans have at one time invented or accessorized a past to clean up the family genealogy.”—Nancy Isenberg, “White, Whiteness, Whitewash”

Plus: T. M. Luhrmann on the exvangelical movement, Joseph Horowitz on the future of the performing arts, and Sierra Bellows on conceptual art for the Covid Era

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Our Revels Now Are Ended

What the pandemic portends for the performing arts in America

by Joseph Horowitz

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New Orleans: Vanishing Graves

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials

by Charlie Lee

Commonplace Book

Winter 2021

by Anne Matthews

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Long-Distance Punishment

Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?

by Sierra Bellows
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