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Michael Blanding
| July 24, 2026
The Queer Poetics in Writing About Past and Present Brazilian Politics
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Lara Norgaard
| July 24, 2026
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
“Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.”
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Rebecca Solnit
| July 23, 2026
For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment
Kōhei Saitō on the Myth of Free Market Solutions to Climate Change
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Kohei Saito
| July 23, 2026
God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s
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Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell
| July 23, 2026
How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism
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Emily Eakin
| July 21, 2026
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Megan Marshall
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Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize.
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