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Did It Really Happen? Fact, Fiction, Fate

Did It Really Happen? Fact, Fiction, Fate

When Fiction Seems All Too True

By Leslie Pietrzyk | October 5, 2015

The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World

The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World

David Jaher

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Identities Adrift Off the American Shore

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Korean-Japanese Relations, National Identity, and the Zainichi

By Joohwan Kim | September 30, 2015

Exploring Patrick Modiano's Paris

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How The French Think

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Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology

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Ed Regis

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