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To the Lighthouse—Virginia Woolf
A murmuration of minds
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The Castle—Franz Kafka
You can’t get there from here
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War with the Newts—Karel Čapek
The Human Comedy, but with Gills
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The Cherry Orchard—Anton Chekhov
Gone with the Axe
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Three Sisters—Anton Chekhov
"Even worse than Shakespeare"
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Mrs. Dalloway—Virginia Woolf
Party for Party's Sake
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Uncle Vanya—Anton Chekhov
We coulda been contendahs
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The Seagull—Anton Chekhov
One dead tern deserves another
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The Master and Margarita—Mikhail Bulgakov
“Nyaaa, what’s all the hubbub, Bub?” —Bugs Bunny
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Sister Carrie and The House of Mirth
Two reflections from the first year of the Decade Project
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Poems—Emily Dickinson
Schrödinger’s Poet
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Clea—Lawrence Durrell
The bucket brigade of artists
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