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    BOOK REVIEW: THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOF

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    BOOK REVIEW: BLUE: A NOVEL

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    BOOK REVIEW: THE LAST ONE

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    BOOK REVIEW: 533: A BOOK OF DAYS

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    BOOK REVIEW: THE INTERIM

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    PRAISE FOR AN UNOPINIONATED INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

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    BOOK REVIEW: RESET

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    EDITOR’S LETTER: NATURE ISSUE

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    Hindsight 2020: Notes on the First Year of the Trump Presidency

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    A Legacy of Aunting in the Literary Community

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    ARMBARS–IOWA CITY 1995

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    Coronavirus, or the voices to forget

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    LIGHTING THE MATCH

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    Good Friday, 2020

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    Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)

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    Strange Waters

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    Can’t You Do Something About This?

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    When Blankoids Sing They Sound Like Elvis

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    I Want You to Know That I Was Hot Too

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    THE “JESUS LOVES ME” PAWN SHOP STORIES

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    Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)

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    The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment

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    Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)

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    Dear Corporate State (from the Dystopian Letters)

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    The Representation of Augmented Reality in Fiction 

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    Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr by Charlotte Kent

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