Posts tagged literature
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(YET ANOTHER) YANK AT OXFORD
November 26, 2015 - Richard Wendorf
Shortly after the Boston Athenaeum reopened its brass-studded, red leather doors in 2002, I was asked, as its director and […]
Tagged: academic, American, Balliol, biography, college, director, literature, Mehta, Oxford, Pembroke, trinity, Worcester
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America in Colour
June 24, 2014 - Stephanie Boxall
After years of promising myself I would read Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, I finally got round to […]
Tagged: African-American, Civil War, colour, film, Kaffe Fassett, learning, literature
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