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Arts
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Is...
Its often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States...
74 min
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Alejandro Puyana, "Freedom Is a Feast" (Little,...
50 min
78
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Intr...
54 min
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Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Pr...
26 min
80
José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: ...
An interview with José Vergara
54 min
81
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Sla...
68 min
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Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint C...
39 min
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
95 min
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Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Pa...
21 min
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154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Ki...
43 min
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Megan Cummins, "Atomic Hearts" (Ballentine Book...
49 min
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Isabel Toral and Beatrice Gruendler, "An Unruly...
61 min
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Jan Dost, "Safe Corridor" (DarArab, 2025)
29 min
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William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeto...
63 min
90
Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Mi...
66 min
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Amy Stuber, "Sad Grownups" (Stillhouse Press, 2...
43 min
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Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Pow...
42 min
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Benoit Berthelier and Immanuel Kim, "Hidden Her...
42 min
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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Li...
These texts and others, Givens suggests, portray Christ apophatically: that is, by showing who Christ was not, in order to illuminate who Christ therefore must be...
62 min
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Ilana Rosen, "Israeli Documentary Poetry: Comin...
54 min
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Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebra...
37 min
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Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to...
44 min
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John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (...
79 min
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Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckon...
81 min
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Ilanit Loewy Shacham, "Empire Inside Out: Relig...
29 min