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Are You Pregnant? Can I Have Some Creamer? And Other Questions I Get at the Library

Are You Pregnant? Can I Have Some Creamer? And Other Questions I Get at the Library

Kristen Arnett is Back with More Tales from the Library

By Kristen Arnett | April 4, 2018

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

Introducing a New Column by Kristen Arnett

By Kristen Arnett | March 21, 2018

Want to Hear a Dirty Joke? Get a Woman to Tell It

Want to Hear a Dirty Joke? Get a Woman to Tell It

Eileen Pollack on the Courage and Comic Genius of
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By Eileen Pollack | January 4, 2018

Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

Fake News and the Rise of Fascism in the 1920s

On the Continued Relevance of Mihail Sebastian’s
For Two Thousand Years

By Philip Ó Ceallaigh | September 14, 2017

<em>South Park</em> and the Dark Comedy of Our Deepest Fears

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Kayla Rae Whitaker on Two Decades of Vulgar Escapism

By Kayla Rae Whitaker | January 31, 2017

Donald Trump: All of the Worst Fictional Presidents Rolled into One

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