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Narrative Architecture #8: Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" and the campus suspense novel (spoilers)
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Harrison Blackman

August 2024

Meet the "sustainable" gas station
The Helios House in Los Angeles, a relic of 2007 greenwashing
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Harrison Blackman
The plague of Marseille (Part II)
The pandemic, and its mystery of transmission, "unfolded"
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Harrison Blackman
Cautious optimism
Narrative Architecture #7: David Wallace-Wells’ "The Uninhabitable Earth" and communicating climate change effectively
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Harrison Blackman
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When 'show don't tell' is bad advice
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Harrison Blackman
Scorpionfish
Natalie Bakopoulos on her novel set in contemporary Greece
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Harrison Blackman

July 2024

The plague of Marseille (Part I)
The 1720 pandemic that transformed France's second city
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Harrison Blackman
A fishy story
Narrative Architecture #6: The many strange narrative choices of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"
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Harrison Blackman
The return
After two years, a homecoming in the island of Aphrodite
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Harrison Blackman

June 2024

Tree people
Narrative Architecture #5: Richard Powers' "The Overstory"
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Harrison Blackman
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Director's Cut
Carlyn Greenwald on her queer romance about Hollywood and academia
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Harrison Blackman
Sandfuture
Justin Beal on his innovative biography of Minoru Yamasaki
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Harrison Blackman
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