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As old institutions across America struggle for relevance today, this important book reminds us that there are simple things we can do to help preserve
Although widespread despair is a given, Enger reminds readers of what’s still to cherish.
Alice Walker’s short story “The Welcome Table” introduces an old, poor Black woman in the South, who, one Sunday, decides to worship at the church
Every now and then a novelist comes along whose unique voice grips us from the first page—Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne Robinson, Brian Doyle come quickly to
During my last year of teaching, I read William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land with my sophomore American Literature students. It was, as the author
Like many children raised in the 1960’s, I was taught that guns were for soldiers and police officers and certainly not for play. My brothers
There’s a scene in Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, where Stephen Kumalo and his guide Msimangu, both Black pastors in search of Kumalo’s lost
I won’t forget that first week of remote teaching during the early days of the pandemic. Behind closed doors, I spoke into my laptop from
With thanks to Wendell Berry What if diplomas were earned for the seconddefinition of the verb“graduate”: “to change graduallyby degrees”? What if teachers graded using,say,
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