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Apocalypse and Anticlimax: The Petrified Forest, Calistoga, CA

Abigail Struhl

Unlike us today, the Victorians who discovered this stone forest were less afraid of the future than they were of forgetting the past.

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Deep Focus: “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”

Olivia Rutigliano

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Birds Beyond Birding

Cal Biruk
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“Our Guns Make the Violence That People Are Fleeing”: Ieva Jusionyte on Guns & Violence in Mexico

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Literature in the Time of Suicide

Carolyn Fornoff
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Can Centuries-Old Nuns Really Save Us from Ourselves?

Paul Michael Johnson

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