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Shanghai to Lioessens

it can be a relief to trace the track of little people who go on to great if often unremarked things. And it can be

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On Creeds and Confessions I

You can’t dismiss creeds and confessions because of their “politics.” They typically emerge out of crises which typically have a political dimension.

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The “Dutch-American” Pulitzer

Ferber purportedly took inspiration for her heroine from the real-life Antje Paarlberg of South Holland (“Low Prairie”), Illinois, but So Big’s pictureof Dutch-American culture and

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