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There’s No Comfort, No Smooth Summer Breeze in ‘The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty’
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There’s No Comfort, No Smooth Summer Breeze in ‘The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty’

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 / 26 July 2019

There are a great deal of positive and memorable passages to be found in Eudora Welty's stories set during the pre-Civil Rights United States -- for those willing to swim through the problematic waters.

The Story of a Nation Built on Murder, Theft, and Cruelty
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The Story of a Nation Built on Murder, Theft, and Cruelty

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 / 31 January 2018

The specter of slavery draws unavoidable correlations to contemporary American society in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.

‘Jonathan Unleashed’: Nice Dogs, Too Bad About the Jokes
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‘Jonathan Unleashed’: Nice Dogs, Too Bad About the Jokes

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 / 2 August 2016
This shoots for the angsty New York comedy of Woody Allen, but it suffers from that which Allen so famously called grounds for divorce: insufficient laughter.
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Jhumpa Lahiri Boldly Takes on the Subject of Maternal Ambivalence

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 / 4 October 2013
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‘Lord of Misrule’: Quite Possibly Different from Everything Else You’ve Read In a Very Long Time

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 / 3 February 2011
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A Dangerous Age by Ellen Gilchrist

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 / 4 May 2008