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“A Fox and a Chicken” [by Andrea Cohen]
A Fox and a Chicken Don’t forget, there’s alsoa sack of corn and a rowboatin the riddle. There’s a manwhose task it is to row the boat,and rowing, to figure out howto get the chicken…
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from “The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published” [by River Page]
from The Free Press, July 16, 2025, this excerpt fromThe White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published by River Page <<<Several years ago, the man calling himself “Jasper Ceylon” was trying to…
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“Signs of the Times”: A hit-job in December 1991
<<<“Oh, happy day” It is sometimes claimed by liberals and leftists in the academy that recent attacks upon the way the teaching of the humanities has been politically corrupted in our universities either are…
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“Bue Window” [by Natalia Fabia]
Terence Winch introduced me to this painting, "Bue Window" by Natalia Fabia (American, born 1983) and we both think it would make excellent cover art. — DL
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George Bilgere picks a poem by Howard Nemerov
Here’s a poem for today, July 14, 2025 A Primer of the Daily Round by Howard Nemerov A peels an apple, while B kneels to God, C telephones to D, who has a hand…
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“Loss of Halo” [by Charles Baudelaire]
“What! You here, too, old chap? You, in this den of iniquity! You, quaffer of quintessences! You, who sup on ambrosia! This is a real surprise.” “My dear fellow, you know my fear of…
