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Bob Dylan and Israel (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
It is possible to select carefully chosen materials from Bob Dylan's life and songs to reflect your own beliefs. So it is with some hesitation that I describe Dylan's relationship with Israel. I will…
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‘Breaking Bad’ tonight: Walt reads Walt: White on Whitman [by Ken Tucker]
I urge you to watch tonight’s episode of Breaking Bad, which finds Bryan Cranston’s Walter White adjusting to the dissolution of his marriage while declining to abandon one big reason it dissolved: He still…
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The Young British Poets! by Todd Swift
From a distance, Britain (the UK), can appear a weird place – especially these days. It’s just had a week of travel chaos with its skies completely shut down due to an Icelandic volcano.…
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Eruptions Distruptions [by Catharine Stimpson]
On Tuesday, April 20, I was walking down the narrow footpath of Cambridge Grove, an ethnically mixed street in Hammersmith in West London. I was one of the many stranded and stalled in…
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The Trouble Clef – Findings | 24 April 2010 [by Lera Auerbach]
Here are some of this week's findings, confirming to the idea that life may indeed be worth living: This is a wonderful TED talk on creativity, pressures, self-destructive tendencies that artists are prone to,…
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“Longing Sonnet” [by Megin Jimenez]
Though wandering is the mark of Sundays,This ramble masks a marching order.(A mind-state, I’ve read, of neural pathwaysAkin to brains with compulsive disorder.)You wouldn’t understand it if I told you,But the body you made…
