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Galleycat reports on the fight that has erupted over the National Book Critics Circle awards nomination process.

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“What should we speak at dinner?”: Four languages, one holiday meal.

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Did Dickens’ Scrooge suffer from an undiagnosed medical disorder?

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For Edward Gorey, Christmas was a stumbling, blithering event.

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The Tea Cake Project preserves recipes for an African-American treat now, in the convenience-food era, known mostly as a nickname from Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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