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arguing for the central role of art and intellectual culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis

Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments—when regrets

and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny

When their one-night stand unexpectedly evolves into something serious

Muscadine Binding:Paperback is a writerA. H. Jerriod Avants debut collection, Muscadine, cultivates the vine of familial memory, eulogizing our collective losses while exalting the succor of this human life, how the native grapes thick skin [that] teeth pierce breaks to pour sweetly across the tongue. Throughout these pages, a deeply Southern sensibility balances an environmental awareness of deficit and bounty appetite pains the stomach and delights the palette. In all seasons, the