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Dystopia Weekend: America’s Ayn Rand Problem
Marc Eliot Stein
December 3, 2017

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov: Russia’s Eternal Literary #Resistance
Marc Eliot Stein
September 3, 2017

Miami Diary, August 2017
Marc Eliot Stein
August 20, 2017

Ride to Think: The Lonely Journey of Robert M. Pirsig
Marc Eliot Stein
April 29, 2017

The Great Lost American Rock Memoir: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Marc Eliot Stein
March 16, 2017

Midsummer in Winter
Marc Eliot Stein
January 28, 2017

Our Rhinoceros Year
Marc Eliot Stein
December 30, 2016

Eamon Loingsigh in Exile
Marc Eliot Stein
December 18, 2016

A Time For Kicks, A Time For Inspiration
Marc Eliot Stein
December 1, 2016

November 2016: Our Fight Begins
Marc Eliot Stein
November 9, 2016

To Be Trans: Lili Elbe and Me
April Rose Schneider
October 1, 2016

What Would Leo Tolstoy Tell Us About Donald Trump?
Marc Eliot Stein
August 24, 2016

Sympathizers and Innocents: New Novels by Viet Thanh Nguyen and Dana Spiotta
Marc Eliot Stein
July 17, 2016

Beat Nourishment
Marc Eliot Stein
June 1, 2016

Phases of Change
Marc Eliot Stein
May 10, 2016

Revolt on Mount Parnassus: An Allegory in Copy/Paste
Eamon Loingsigh
April 19, 2016

Beverly, Clearly
Marc Eliot Stein
April 12, 2016

Phife Dawg, Represent …
Marc Eliot Stein
March 23, 2016

For Sam Savage, Beautiful Literary Rat in Hospice
Marc Eliot Stein
March 9, 2016

Glimpses
Marc Eliot Stein
February 19, 2016

Becoming Myself
Marc Eliot Stein
January 29, 2016

The Genius of David Bowie, in 5 Songs
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
January 11, 2016

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
December 29, 2015

Beat Journeys with Brian Hassett and Eliot Katz
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
December 18, 2015

Reaching
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
December 3, 2015

Elegant Violence: David Shields Takes On The New York Times
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
November 25, 2015

A Thanksgiving Thought Experiment
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
November 23, 2015

Like This House Needs More Fire …
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
November 15, 2015

A Veteran of the World
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
November 11, 2015

A Taxonomy for Pacifism
Levi Asher aka Marc Eliot Stein
November 8, 2015