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Metaphors are not microaggressions

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Solidarity with Humanity

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On the folk origins of the Sarmatians

And the question of being "tamed"

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How not to be a poser

Mimesis, counter-mimesis, and René Girard's Deceit, Desire & the Novel

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Writing Unfamiliar Senses

Or unfamiliar anything, for that matter…

Mar 16

Passive Protagonists

Prisoners of their own story?

Mar 2

Poem by J.M. Elliott

Feb 18

Good intentions haunt an elderly peasant couple as they struggle to reckon with a good deed gone wrong.

Feb 15

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