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Local Author Interview: Milo Todd on Excavating a Lost Queer Berlin

July 17, 2026
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Novelist Milo Todd discusses his novel “The Lilac People” and the challenge of reconstructing queer and trans lives under—and after—Nazism.

Children’s Book Reviews: Creatures Real and Imaginary

July 17, 2026
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Big questions, wild beasts, and one very independent pet

Book Review: “The Trust Spiral” — A Provocative but Flawed Overview of What’s Wrong with the Media

July 16, 2026
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Walter Lippmann defined objectivity as the fair-minded pursuit of the truth, but all too often it has degenerated into false equivalence. Tara Henley tries to have it both ways.

Book Review: “The Selected Letters of Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison” — Two Writers, One Rare Friendship

July 14, 2026
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These letters between Jane Kenyon and Alice Mattison offer a moving portrait of literary life, daily labor, and mutual devotion

Book Review: “Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story” – Renaissance Guitar Man

July 12, 2026
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Jeff Beck is a bigger guitar hero than you realized.

Book Review: “Hujar: Contact” — The Captivating Tip of a Photographic Iceberg

July 9, 2026
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A trove of contact sheets reveals Peter Hujar’s working method, restless eye, and the breadth of an underseen archive.

Book Review: Beyond the Canon — How Cultural Authority Is Made

July 7, 2026
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“Move Over, Mona Lisa” maps the “inequality pipeline” linking museums, publishing, and academia—and challenges the systems that shape what the world sees and reads.

Book Review: Christian Wiman’s “The Dance” — A Sonic Theology of Uncertainty

July 7, 2026
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The collection assembles moments of doubt, humor, and revelation into a resonant poetic experience.

Book Review: “The Veiled Prophet” — The Pageantry of Reaction

June 29, 2026
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Veiled power in St. Louis –How a secret society turned class war into ritual and never let go.

Poetry Review: Nicole Yurcaba’s “Hutsulka” — Lost in Translation, Living in War

June 26, 2026
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A compelling exploration of diasporic grief and the limits of a poetic response to war.

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