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06/14/2021

David Foster Wallace’s Problematic Tenses

Foster Wallace claimed James Baldwin’s support for ‘Standard White English’ — yet the latter dismissed it long before

by Arvind Dilawar

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01/14/2019

Sex with the Dead

An exploration of a literary trope

by Allen Mendenhall

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11/30/2018

Subverting Seduction

A review of Karina Longworth’s Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom

by Melinda Lewis

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03/14/2016

Pundits, Moguls, Sachems, and Czars

On borrowed power and the borrowed words we use to describe it

by Michael Lind

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09/09/2013

The Storytellers

The Grimm side of fairytales

by Morgan Meis

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09/05/2013

The Other Sea

Balboa's power as a leader

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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12/23/2011

Always the Optimist

Havel's rise of the people

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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06/15/2011

Trunk Show

What's Weiner’s deal?

by Morgan Meis

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06/07/2011

The Naked Truth

Boris Mikhailov at MOMA

by Morgan Meis

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01/21/2009

Homesick

by Morgan Meis

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