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About Matthew C. Nickel, Ph.D.
Matthew C. Nickel is Associate Professor of English at Misericordia University (Dallas, PA). He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is the author of Hemingway's Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway. He is also a poet and editor, and his writing on American and British literature has appeared in a number of journals and scholarly volumes.
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A Time to Read Nicolas Diat’s “A Time to Die”

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In the age of COVID-19, death has become a daily subject around the dinner table, in the grocery store, and at a social distance even at the gas station. We are now constantly reminded in […]

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