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A Map of Languages, Dead and Dying
I sometimes wonder if this very search to understand my family’s history, the context out of which I emerged, only feeds into this false sense of separateness. Perhaps it only doubles down on this “us vs. them” way of looking…
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“This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life” by Deborah Lutz
This Dark Night effectively refutes the lasting image of the Brontës as isolated sad girls, stuck in the sticks with their abusive reverend father, which originated with Elizabeth Gaskell’s now-classic hagiography of her close friend, Charlotte Brontë. Lutz sketches a…
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Penrose
La presión en el pecho asoma al final del segundo tramo. Rodilla arriba, pie sobre escalón, impulso y carga del propio peso contra la gravedad, y el peso del edema acumulado porque las válvulas se abren y la sangre se…
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What is Freedom: Jason Reynolds
To be free, for me, is to no longer consider the consequences of my body and skin and hair and tongue, not because of a refusal to bend, not as an act of defiance and courage, but because it has…
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A Month Without a Map
We plant gardens on the banks of trenches, tending muddy flowerbeds we may never see blossom. We load our babies into the car to drop them off at daycare on our way to work in a beach town, and never…
