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Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

Radical Lesbians and Active Desire: On Rita Mae Brown and the Lesbian Political Movement

Nona Willis Aronowitz Explores the Early Days of Queer Feminism

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Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

Meet Laddie Boy: The First Celebrity Presidential Pet

On President Warren G. Harding’s Airedale Terrier

By Andrew Hager | August 10, 2022

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

Christina Lamb on the Remarkable Life and Boundless Determination of War Correspondent Virginia Cowles

“Cowles’s encounters with all the key players have led some to describe her as the Forrest Gump of journalism.”

By Christina Lamb | August 9, 2022

Fresh Updates on the Dead: On Jerry Garcia’s Current Status in the Spirit Realm

Fresh Updates on the Dead: On Jerry Garcia’s Current Status in the Spirit Realm

Joey Sweeney Finds the Eternal Jerry Alive and Well on YouTube

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How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm

How CCR, “The Boy Scouts of Rock and Roll,” Took California and the Country by Storm

John Lingan on Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Unique Blend of Traditional and Progressive Sensibilities

By John Lingan | August 9, 2022

Wandering The Wirral: On the Literary Influence of Malcolm Lowry’s Childhood Landscape

Wandering The Wirral: On the Literary Influence of Malcolm Lowry’s Childhood Landscape

Adam Scovell Revisits the Land Across the Mersey

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Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

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Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

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“I saw no reason to doubt Mekas’s story: hadn’t he written it all down in his diaries and told it in his films?”

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