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  1. Art and Reading as Experience
  2. W. Ralph Eubanks
  3. pp. 12-13
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  1. The Master Touch: Schuyler Towne on the Art and Ethics of Breaking In
  2. Joshua Foer
  3. pp. 14-21
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  1. Nothing Helps
  2. Francisco Goldman
  3. pp. 22-25
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  1. Diasporas
  2. Reif Larsen
  3. pp. 26-27
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  1. Circling Back: Gabriel Orozco—painter, sculptor, provocateur—changes direction
  2. Julia Cooke
  3. pp. 28-51
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  1. Black Raspberry Canes, and: A Nickel on Top of a Penny
  2. Stephen Burt
  3. pp. 52-53
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  1. Necessary Utterance: On Poetry As a Cultural Force
  2. Natasha Trethewey
  3. pp. 54-61
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  1. Sturgeon Moon
  2. Nathaniel Perry
  3. p. 62
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  1. Kinda Blue
  2. Peter Balakian
  3. p. 63
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  1. Pain
  2. Will Boast
  3. pp. 64-69
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  1. Open & Borrow, and: Choir
  2. Katie Ford
  3. pp. 70-71
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  1. At Home at the Other End of the Rainbow: Going Off the Grid (and Into the Desert) to Live the American Dream
  2. Mark Van de Walle, Elizabeth Daniels
  3. pp. 72-89
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  1. Mr. Cartoon
  2. Chris Offutt
  3. pp. 90-96
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  1. Buckle
  2. Steven Amsterdam
  3. pp. 97-105
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  1. Virtual Grave
  2. Lara Vapnyar
  3. pp. 106-116
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  1. Transfigured Night
  2. Paula Whyman
  3. pp. 117-126
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  1. Bitter Night in the Country
  2. Hayden Saunier
  3. p. 127
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  1. India’s Golden Chance
  2. Meera Subramanian
  3. pp. 128-141
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  1. Who Is Zwarte Piet?: A holiday tradition in the Netherlands involving blackface has sparked a debate about race, the legacy of slavery, and the vestiges of colonialism
  2. Emily Raboteau
  3. pp. 142-155
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  1. I Say Archetype, and: A Toast
  2. Wendy Videlock
  3. pp. 156-157
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  1. The Colors of Tiksi
  2. Evgenia Arbugaeva
  3. pp. 158-173
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  1. The Hare and the Hunter
  2. Jonathan Green
  3. pp. 174-181
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  1. Thomas Cole and the Decorative Arts
  2. Jean Dunbar
  3. pp. 182-195
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  1. A Grand Tour
  2. Robert Zaretsky
  3. pp. 196-202
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  1. The Big Read: Can a Single Book Sum Up a Nation?
  2. Michael Dirda
  3. pp. 203-206
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  1. New Fiction on the Great Flood of 1927
  2. Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.
  3. pp. 207-211
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  1. The Way of All Flesh: On Tolstoy and Mortality
  2. William Giraldi
  3. pp. 212-217
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  1. God’s Grandeur: The Prayer Journal of Flannery O’Connor
  2. Carlene Bauer
  3. pp. 218-221
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  1. Blues vs. Rhythm and Blues
  2. Gregory McNamee
  3. p. 222
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  1. From the VQR Vault: The Literary Life
  3. p. 224
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  1. Robert Penn Warren’s Submission of “John Crowe Ransom: A Study in Irony,” 1935
  3. p. 225
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  1. Featured Contributors
  3. pp. 7-9
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