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To Freedom

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is a story we've heard before: an enslaved person runs away from a lifetime of forced servitude in pursuit of freedom. However, in Whitehead's adaptation, the means of escape in this novel is anything but metaphorical; the Underground Railroad is a literal railroad underneath southern soil with conductors and passage… Continue reading To Freedom

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Having A Good Time: An Intricate Account Of the Life Of Freddie Mercury

When I saw a lipstick commercial last summer featuring Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" I didn't know at the time it was a Queen song, but I knew I had heard the singer's voice somewhere before. Sure enough, the voice belonged to Freddie Mercury, rock and roll's most flamboyant and legendary frontman, and from the day… Continue reading Having A Good Time: An Intricate Account Of the Life Of Freddie Mercury