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"Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen, Live Aid, and The Grateful Dead at Ventura County Fairgrounds, 13 July 1985

Disability as metaphor in Denise Levertov

"Writing down what life dictated": The second-person narrator in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck"

An amusing typo – but is it really a typo?

My teaching philosophy and the pandemic

"Are we allowed to use contractions?"