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    Bring the House Down

    Charlotte Runcie's debut, Bring the House Down, is one of those novels that starts off as one thing and then evolves into something else entirely, leaving the reader to feel both slightly off-kilter (...

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    Famously Critical Critics

    The jumping-off point for Charlotte Runcie's Bring the House Down is a one-star review of a one-woman play. Her fictional theater critic Alex Lyons claims 'people like reading bad reviews.' ...

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    The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog

    Science is typically seen as a serious subject—scientific research is rigorously structured and maintained; and the no-nonsense scientific method is necessary for ensuring a valid experiment and...

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    How Satellite Imagery of Penguin Poop Is Leading to Advanced Animal Monitoring

    In The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog¸ Carly Anne York discusses how 'silly science'—science driven by curiosity that may not have an immediate real-world application—can ...

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    An Oral History of Atlantis

    The stories in Ed Park's collection An Oral History of Atlantis range from whimsical to tragic, and mundane to fantastical. Many are very funny. The book opens with "A Note to my Translator," in which...

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    Oracle Bone Script

    One of the short stories in Ed Park's collection An Oral History of Atlantis involves a research group made entirely of Tinas trying to unravel the meaning of an ancient script found on a mysterious ...

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    Hotshot

    Author River Selby was just 19 years old and at loose ends when a friend convinced them to apply for a job as a wildland firefighter. For the next seven years, they spent their summers on fire crews ...

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    The Pulaski

    In Hotshot: A Life on Fire, author River Selby states more than once that their favorite firefighting tool is a Pulaski. The implement is similar to an axe one might use for chopping wood, but it...

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    What Hunger

    It's the summer before Veronica "Ronny" Nguyen starts high school sometime in the early 2000s, and her brother Tommy has just graduated as valedictorian. Tommy is the pride of Ronny's Vietnamese ...

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    Generational Trauma in Vietnamese American Fiction

    In 1975, the US military withdrew from Vietnam after having signed the Paris Peace Accords two years prior. This marked the end of the Vietnam War, and it left millions of Vietnamese citizens ...

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    Ecstasy

    Lena has spent decades living under the thumb of her husband, a wealthy, Greek hotel developer. When he dropped dead from a suspected heart attack, Lena hoped for a fresh start; an opportunity to ...

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    Redefining the Role of the Mythological Bacchae

    In ancient Greco-Roman mythology, the Bacchae—also known as Maenads—were female followers of Dionysus (also known as Bacchus), god of wine and revelry. While some devoted themselves to him...

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