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Feel this Now: Jennifer Doyle's "Hold It Against Me"The Drugs Don’t Work: Tao Lin’s “Taipei” and the Literature of PharmacologyGod in Wayward Forms: Jamie Quatro’s Salvation-Seeking AdulteressesRevenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind”A City for Children in the Work of E. L. KonigsburgLiberal Bias or Neoliberal Bias?: Neil Gross's "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"Rewiring Literary CriticismPandas, Professors, and Promises, or, The MOOC Will Not Set Us FreeA Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña's "The Sad Passions"The Weight of History: Colum McCann’s "TransAtlantic"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S. HarperPeak Adventure: On Mountaineering and the Enlightenment see all reviews »
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But What About the Soul: Poets at the Movies (Part 1)Bloomsday 2013: John JoyceMr. Chan and the MachineMOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's TestimonyLove, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby WorksHow To Read AgambenThe Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan ZaqtanPost-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season Four see all essays »
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PODCAST #33: David Shook, "Our Obsidian Tongues"[VIDEO] Mary Otis, "Yes, Yes, Cherries"Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy MilesDigging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCannPODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha TretheweyThe Second Act of Alex Espinoza[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do AidContextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona MaazelPODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante see all interviews »
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