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07/20/2020

Strange Islands

Imperialist love stories

by Benjamin Welton

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03/28/2019

Conte Cruel

The Haunted World of Ray Russell

by Benjamin Welton

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01/14/2019

Sex with the Dead

An exploration of a literary trope

by Allen Mendenhall

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03/06/2017

Impossible Time

On the French Catcher in the Rye, cinematic memory, and cave diaries

by Elisa Gabbert

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08/24/2016

Why Read Novels?

Because they aren’t quite real

by Elisa Gabbert

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06/02/2016

Shagga Son of Dolf Likes this Not

An encyclopedia of bad prose

by Stephen Akey

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05/06/2015

The Lost Frontier

How fantasy is killing the space opera

by Michael Lind

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02/24/2011

Travelin’ Man

Thirty years of An African in Greenland.

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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12/02/2010

Monsters, Inc.

On the seriousness of Archimboldo's silly creatures.

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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