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I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

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Lauren Acampora on the Public Consumption of Art, and How Not To Let It Consume You

By Lauren Acampora | August 23, 2022

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

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Dan Bouk on “Madam and the Census Man” and the Untold Stories Behind Census Records

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The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

Linda Kinstler on Paranoia and Justice in Soviet-Occupied Latvia

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Stuck in a Spaceship: On The Expanse and Redrawing the Lines of a Body

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