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- Art Spiegelman remembers Jules Feiffer
- On the reception of non-Western literature in the Western world
Moeen Farrokhi Considers the Spaces Between Language and Experience
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Jesse Sheidlower on the Limberness and Literary Uses of “Fuck”
Douglas J. Penick on Capturing the Essence of South Asian Mythology For a Contemporary Western Audience
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