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“There’s always a way to tell an old story in a new way.”

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The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

The Trickster and the Monster: When Nixon Went to China

Chas Freeman and Gish Jen Guest on Radio Open Source

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How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading

Dennis Duncan on the Hope, History and Necessity of All Those Numbers and Words

By Dennis Duncan | February 18, 2022

Want an app to read you the <em>Canterbury Tales</em> in Middle English? You’re in luck.

Want an app to read you the Canterbury Tales in Middle English? You’re in luck.

By Walker Caplan | February 17, 2022

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

On the Revelatory Scandals of Elizabeth Chudleigh, aka the Duchess Countess

By Catherine Ostler | February 17, 2022

What Is China Reading Right Now?

What Is China Reading Right Now?

Megan Walsh on the “Little Emperors” of Contemporary Chinese Literature

By Megan Walsh | February 17, 2022

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David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

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“We are writing ourselves closer to the ideals purported at the founding.”

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Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

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Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

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Activist Learning: How Anti-Vietnam War Academics Reinvented the Strike

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