Daughters of War

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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Not Ready to Make Nice

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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The Man Who Changed the Face of Spring

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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White Like Me

… cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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A Woman’s Place

… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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The Backdoor to Equality

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Present-Day Thoughts on the Quality of Life (1969)

… whether based on race, ethnicity, or political ideology. But our grandfather’s work reminds us that the forces that bind us together are expressed neither in Instagram feeds and Facebook profiles, nor in marches and protests. They instead take their form in our habits and manners—the way we think about, talk to, and deal …

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The Third Obituary of Anton Popov

… bird feeder suspended from a maple branch. Two nuthatches pecking birdseed took flight in opposite directions. Mrs. Popov did not react to the thudding of the squirrel’s body as it lost its grip on the feeder and hit the ground. She did not react to the brush of Elsie’s rough lips on her

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Freedom of Thought

… mind of the country feeding on today?
Nineteenth-century intellectual life in the United States, despite its sprawl, has a number of well-defined through lines: transcendentalism, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of Darwinism, the Civil War, the failures of Reconstruction, and the emergence of American pragmatism. There are other themes, but the period …

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The Sound of Evil

… to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 as his underwater fortress, Atlantis, rises from the waves, and he savors Bach’s Air on the G String while feeding a duplicitous minion to his pet shark. In Quantum of Solace, spectre inexplicably chooses a live performance of Tosca as the venue to discuss overthrowing the Bolivian …

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