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16
Aug

A Life of Jazz

Jazz called to Nat Hentoff when he was 11 years old, and he heard Artie Shaw’s “Nightmare” wafting from a Boston storefront. At that moment, he writes in At the Jazz Band …

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13
Aug

The New Textbook Frontier

Information is freer than ever in campus communities with two recent legal developments, both in the monetary and the ethical sense of the word. The long-awaited implementation of the Higher Education Opportunity …

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10
Aug

Nixon Quits – 36 Years On

W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, is a professor of communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He has written four other books, and he frequently blogs about media-driven myths …

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04
Aug

Memory and Mark Twain

The BBC World Service recently interviewed Bob Hirst, editor at the Mark Twain Project, and John Freeman, editor of Granta Magazine, which published an excerpt of the Autobiography of Mark Twain in …

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03
Aug

Wine’s Less Traveled Roads

Many people are interested in venturing beyond the classic, familiar wines at dinner, but pairing new flavors with food can be a challenge. In this week’s episode of The Splendid Table, Evan …

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02
Aug

Youth Radio Stories

Since 1992, Youth Radio has been an outlet for young people to find their own voices and tell their own stories through media. In Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, Elisabeth Soep …

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02
Aug

2010 American Book Award Winners

On the surface, they may seem different—one is a book about American jazz, the other is about the relationship between romantic and experimental modern poetry—but Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of …

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30
Jul

Mark Twain’s Many Faces

There are many revelations in the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and Newsweek found today that these only make Twain more intriguing: “The more you read, the more complicated he seems….He is still …

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