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01/21/2021

On a Screen, Darkly

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Intimacy and Instagram in a pandemic

by Andrea Bianchi

01/14/2021

My Mother’s Letter

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A taste of the upper crust

by John Skoyles

01/11/2021

The Sirens of the Loons

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Trying to find home miles away

by Rebekah Morris

01/07/2021

The Time to Worry about Chinatown

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The neighborhood survived racism, gentrification, and even a city-leveling earthquake, but might be done in by COVID-19

by Arvind Dilawar

12/31/2020

What We Did with 2020

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Making the best out of a terrible year

by The Smart Set Staff

12/24/2020

(S)elf-Paved

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Reading Seabury Quinn's Roads

by Colin Fleming

12/17/2020

Cinematic Violence

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Talking to David Thomson about Murder and the Movies

by Matt Hanson

12/14/2020

Reckonings and Farewells

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Breaking up in the time of quarantine

by Emma Eisler

12/10/2020

Truly Dystopian

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Speculative fiction's misogynoir problem

by Byshera Williams

12/07/2020

Pancake’s Haunts

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Legends and Ghosts in The Collected Breece D’J Pancake

by Marek Makowski

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