Holy Smoke
by Todd Moye / Posted on | No CommentsYou have your holiday traditions, and I have mine. For the past two years, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I’ve abandoned my family with [...]
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Poetry in Black and White
by Wendy Barker / Posted on | No CommentsIn 1972, after four years of teaching English at Berkeley High’s ninth-grade West Campus, I quit. Cleaned off my bulletin boards and returned to [...]
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by Robert Perkinson / Posted on | No CommentsThe politics of marijuana exemplify the contradictions of the [civil rights] era. In response to the [Lee Otis] Johnson case [in which a civil [...]
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by Emily DePrang / Posted on | No CommentsJake Silverstein is painfully successful. The 35-year-old California native is editor of Texas Monthly and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. He won a [...]
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by Marian Haddad / Posted on | No CommentsWhen I—as the daughter of Syrian immigrants who arrived in Texas in the mid-1950s—read Anis Shivani’s storiesthe book called up my parents’ desire to [...]
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