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Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

Inside a Progressive Hotbed in Early 20th-Century New York

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The Films of Dario Argento as a Metaphor for Illness

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When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the<br> Spanish Civil War

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Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

Jean Genet on the Hidden Heart of Jean Cocteau

"He is not a witch, he is bewitched.”

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John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

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