• The History of Literature

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    David Sterling Brown on Shakespeare’s White Others

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    Katherine Howe on the Joy of Writing Pirates

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    Dr. Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature

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    Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

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    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

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    Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

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    Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott’s Fascinating Life

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    Maaheen Ahmed on the Dynamism of Comics

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    Scott Samuelson on the Pleasures of Rome

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    Exploring Literary New Orleans

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    Exploring Literary Dublin with Christopher Morash

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    Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

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