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Grace: An Unfinished Draft, A Fire

Bodies and Minds Emily Van Duyne - 0
  My great-Aunt Helen died when she was 88-years old. At the time, I was 35, and had just been hired onto the tenure-track. A...
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Bezos Stole My Space Sex and I Want It Back

Bodies and Minds Margret Grebowicz - 0
There’s so much wrong with the Billionaire Space Race. It’s gross that it’s populated by old white men; it’s gross that the earthbound working...
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Gamers Like Me

Bodies and Minds Justin Mann - 0
In a press release issued about its past “mistakes,”—issued in tandem with countless other organizations in response to antiblack police murder and global uprising...
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Home Alone With the NYT

Getting Us Through Lily Scherlis - 0
Last March, life was suddenly not good. In the real world, this was because people were dying, en masse, each alone; in the world...
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Why Did Bridgerton Erase Haiti?

Bodies and Minds Marlene L. Daut - 0
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels are mostly populated with white people like the regency-era England where they take place. The London of Shonda Rhimes’s Bridgerton...
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“Find Something New to Love”(as long as it’s not Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza)

The Wide, Wide World Monica Huerta - 0
  There's only one piece of dogma I’ve never questioned: Mexican Pizza is the best thing at Taco Bell. That makes the fact that in...
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