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04/07/2022

Dreaming Orchards of Hope in Ukraine’s “Wild East”

Reviewing Lyuba Yakimchuk's Apricots of Donbas

by Jeremy Ray Jewell

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10/22/2018

Watching the Skies

When Star Wars hits too close to home

by Paul Crenshaw

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05/17/2018

College Manifesto

My two years as a communist

by Mel Goldberg

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08/10/2017

Farther and Farther in Sokolniki

Step by step into the unknown

by Philip Metres

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01/28/2016

The Soviet Illusion

The Soviet Union through Vasily Grossman’s unfinished novel

by Kelly Cherry

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01/13/2016

The Re-Enchantment of Poetry

Why poetry should be heard, not seen

by Michael Lind

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12/17/2015

Made Up, Watered Down, and Missing Out

Links from The Smart Set and beyond

by Maren Larsen

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05/15/2015

The Future of God

Godless Americans vs. God-Fearing Russians?

by Michael Lind

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03/10/2014

The Other Dream Team

The amazing story of the 1992 Lithuanian Olympic basketball team.

by Matt Blitz

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06/07/2011

The Naked Truth

Boris Mikhailov at MOMA

by Morgan Meis

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