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11/22/2021

An Elegy for the Working Class

Examining the working-class artists in Cynthia Cruz's The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class

by Rhoda Feng

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09/14/2020

BuÑuel’s Surreal Banality

Sitting down with The Exterminating Angel

by Matt Hanson

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04/11/2019

“Walk Like a Man”

What I Learned from Bruce Springsteen

by Carter Vance

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01/14/2019

Sex with the Dead

An exploration of a literary trope

by Allen Mendenhall

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12/02/2018

Steal This Book

Grasping the Thoreauvian revolution

by Daniel Vollaro

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09/20/2018

At the Crossroads

A review of June Eric-Udorie’s Can We All Be Feminists?

by Melinda Lewis

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04/27/2018

Yvan AlagbĂ©’s Political Menagerie

The new North American edition of the French classic demands close, repeated readings.

by Chris Mautner

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12/14/2017

The Ultimate Currency

Money and materialism in the Midwest

by CJ Bartunek

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11/16/2017

Imagining A Way Out

Why virtual reality needs literary realism

by Abigail Fradkin

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09/07/2017

I, Cecil Vyse

Finding your facts with fiction

by Stephen Akey

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