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LAST WORD Time Is on Our Side Cassandra Nelson Casinos have been on my mind a lot lately, although I'm not a gambler. What I keep thinking about is the way that they're designed to make patrons...
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ARTICLES Bracing for Impact Trauma, Triggers & the Saving Power of Literature Cassandra Nelson The past few years have seen one controversy after another relating to freedom of speech on college...
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LAST WORD Why the Doily? Cassandra Nelson Human virtue, according to Aristotle, is found somewhere in the middle ground between two extremes. For the virtue of courage in particular—which...
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Cassandra Nelson Losing His Way The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee Viking, $27, 260 pp. In his essay "The Storyteller" (1936), philosopher Walter Benjamin asserts that "every real story" must...
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ESSAYS Seeing Is Believing What Flannery O'Connor Meant by 'Vision' Cassandra Nelson Long before functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging showed how much of vision takes place in the brain—and...
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Cassandra Nelson I have a hunch, altogether unprovable, that there is some essential connection between narrative and Christianity. Time for the believer has—like a story—a beginning, middle, and...
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FALL BOOKS Cassandra Nelson Flawed Vessels The Liar’s Wife Four Novellas Mary Gordon Pantheon Books, $25.95, 304 pp. Can good ever come from evil, or truth from a lie? St. Augustine answered...
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ndez, Carmen M. Nanko-Ferná
Time Is on Our Side
(December 2018)
