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The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

How Daniel Boone and Last of the Mohicans Built a Colonialist Origin Story

By Roxanne Oritz-Dunbar | January 26, 2018

Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

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Without a Formal Education, She Produced Gothic Masterworks

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Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, Othering, and the Depictions of Arabs in America

By Philip Metres | January 23, 2018

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

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By M. C. Mah | January 22, 2018

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

Finding Political Inspiration in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Opera

By Veronica Esposito | January 22, 2018

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The Literature of Bad Sex

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J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

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Is <em>Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas</em> a Work of Genius?

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