Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

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Power and Resistance in the Catholic Church: A Reading List

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Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

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Heroic DC library staff trolls all-star conservative story hour with LGBTQ display.

Heroic DC library staff trolls all-star conservative story hour with LGBTQ display.

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Dr Ben Alderson-Day on the Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

Dr Ben Alderson-Day on the Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

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Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

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DK Nnuro on the Power of Mimicry and Subversion in the Black Literary Tradition

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