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Pat Cassels considers a spate of new class-conscious popular films, including “Triangle of Sadness,” “The Menu,” and “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”...
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Katarina O’Briain reviews Martika Ramirez Escobar’s “Leonor Will Never Die.”...
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Shelves Full of Bread: On Joan Ramon Resina’s “Cultures of Currencies”
Christoph Wulf reviews “Cultures of Currencies: Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money,” edited by Joan Ramon Resina....
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Shelves Full of Bread: On Joan Ramon Resina’s “Cultures of Currencies”
Christoph Wulf reviews “Cultures of Currencies: Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money,” edited by Joan Ramon Resina....
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Ode to Survival: On Saeed Jones’s “Alive at the End of the World”
Christos Kalli examines Saeed Jones’s encounters with the end of the world in a poetry collection about survival, “Alive at the End of the World.”...
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Joy Castro reviews Alba de Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook,” translated by Ann Goldstein....
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Emmanuel Iduma’s “I Am Still With You”
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Ian Winwood writes about covering the music industry in Los Angeles....
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