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Freedom Riders: Terror and profundity in eyewitness history of an epochal era

The children’s literature of Frances Hodgson Burnett: “values that we need and can relate to” today

“Humor at first sight” as James Thurber’s art is celebrated for his 125th birthday

James Thurber, “The Day the Dam Broke”

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Jeffrey Colvin: The wide-ranging influences that helped inspire Africaville

Edith Wharton, “Expiation”

(Re)Introducing R. A. Lafferty, a “Master” for the past, present, and future

Gary K. Wolfe: Why the 1950s were the golden age of the science fiction novel

Andrew Blauner: The humanity, humility, and humor of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts

The Ursula K. Le Guin–Harold Bloom connection, and other news for Le Guin’s 90th birthday

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New animated film honors Edward Field, WWII veteran and a hero on several fronts