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Metabolizing the Beautiful
Why Literature Still Matters:Beauty After the Apocalypseby jason m. baxtercassiodorus, 82 pages, $16 My father, a mild-mannered physician then in his forties, used to become positively explosive on Sunday...
Love in the Academic Ruins
The English Department is sick unto death. The signs are all there: an aging tenured professoriate; a generation of young PhDs unable to land workable academic jobs; an even...