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The Role of Reciprocity in Nature in Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes

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Marilyn McEntyre on When Poets Pray

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Simone de Beauvoir on The Ethics of Ambiguity and Existential Courage

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Simone Weil on the Generosity of Attention in Gravity and Grace

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Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin on the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

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Ray Bradbury on the Seduction of Space in The Rocket Man

In his 1951 short story, The Rocket Man, Ray Bradbury explores the seduction of the open sky that inspires Elton John’s iconic song by the same name.

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Kenneth Burke on the Rhythm of Reading

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Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke on Race, Writing, and Friendship

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Reading as Meditation – A Creative Practice

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Rudolf Otto on the Fearful and Fascinating Mystery of the Holy

Rudolf Otto on the Fearful and Fascinating Mystery of the Holy

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