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Adam Burgess
I noticed a trend this year, one that apparently has been around for some time but which I have either missed or ignored, wherein people choose one word to make their “word of the year.” The idea is to start the new year with… Continue Reading “My Word for 2018”
So, here we are on the cusp of another new year. I don’t quite know how to feel about this new year’s eve. I didn’t know what to expect of 2017, and I feel somehow even less sure about 2018. Of course, every year… Continue Reading “What a Year for a New Year”
Here’s a question that comes up all the time: How do you know a work is “literary;” or, the even more common, “what is literature”? As someone who has a difficult time narrowing things down to a “favorite” book, I admit that I find… Continue Reading “What Do We Mean by “Literary”?”
So, here’s a little year-end fun, because why not? I first completed this back in 2010 and thought I would bring it back as a sort of review of this year’s completed reading. The rules? Pretty simple: answer the questions with books you read… Continue Reading “My Life in Books (2017 Edition)”
On Monday, two pages that I follow, Exploring Masculinities and The Sociological Cinema, shared a recent article written for The Atlantic, titled “Females’ Eggs May Actively Select Certain Sperm: New evidence challenges the oldest law of genetics.” The argument comes from one Joe Nadeau… Continue Reading “The Pervasive Problem of Gender-Biased Language”
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