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Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

Lost Boys: On a Hidden Fraternity of the Forsaken in the American West

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Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

Imagining a World Where Anti-Colonial Fantasy Lit Is the Norm, Not the Exception

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How Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son</em> Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

How Richard Wright’s Native Son Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry

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Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

“There are more penises than English women in the Bayeux Tapestry.”

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Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

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The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

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When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

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