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Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

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Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s <em>Much Ado About Nothing</em>

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Five Perspectives on Race and Shakespeare in 2020

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John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

Mark Dery on Great Demon Kings, the Memoir of an Icon

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Will Harris on the Idea of Poetry as Interconnectedness

Will Harris on the Idea of Poetry as Interconnectedness

The Author of RENDANG in Conversation with Peter Mishler

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How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

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Peter Lunenfeld on Joan Didion and Angelyne

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Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Ann Jefferson on the Author's Early Tropisms

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