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08/15/2019

On the Line

The dead cat trope

by Eli Zeger

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04/08/2019

Strait to Istanbul

Traveling through Istanbul

by Adam Jacot de Boinod

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02/28/2019

Living on the Margins

Navigating transculturalism

by Natasha Burge

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11/08/2018

A Not-So-Curious Fascination

On bibliophilism

by John Capista

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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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01/23/2017

Trump Speaks Far-Right

The language of propaganda and hate speech

by Ashlyn Mooney

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12/14/2016

The Language Wars

Why they should end, and how they might end

by Jeffrey Mitchell

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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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03/09/2016

Fair Usage

On the politics of dictionaries

by Elisa Gabbert

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11/16/2015

Moncrieff Relief

by Steve Donoghue

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