THURSDAY, 25 AUGUST 2022
"The Woman King" and Dahomey's Slave-Trading Shame
Gary Karasik: An underdog resistance struggling to battle better-equipped colonizers is a common and stirring trope, but in the case of the Kingdom of Dahomey, it doesn’t work.
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Impish: Still Dreaming of Genie
Ed Rampell: This romantic fantasy collides with reality when Alithea and the Djinn return to her flat in contemporary England together, where the interracial couple come up against history’s recurring nightmare: Racism.
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Life in Focus as the Day Approaches
Garrison Keillor: I like being old and am looking forward to a meeting with my surgeon, an interesting social occasion, shaking the hand that will cut my chest open.
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Are We Progressives Patient Enough?
Walter G. Moss: One of my worst faults is impatience, which recently I’ve been working hard to minimize. As part of that effort, I just completed reading Matthew Pianalto’s On Patience
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