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Plagues Upon the Earth is the type of book that can make you reshape the way you look at and understand the world. This should be obvious, but Harper's book reminds us all the central role disease plays in shaping human events. Some diseases have been with us from the beginning of our species, while others have only developed in the last few thousand, or few hundred years. Here's just one example of how Plagues Upon the Earth can make you rethink what you thought you already knew. Harper points out that a lot of diseases that have existed or…

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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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