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The Mark of Capone: Chicago Violence Then and Now
Aug 23, 2012
Barnes without Barnes: on Philadelphia's New Barnes Foundation
Aug 23, 2012
Feminist Nudity? Video Consent? Moral Panic?
On the Karina Bolaños affair
Toby MillerAug 23, 2012
Brief Lives: The Short Stories of Julie Hayden
On her one and only book, 'The Lists of the Past'
Aug 22, 2012
The Buffalo and Ernest Borgnine
I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
Julie ClineAug 20, 2012
Consolation from Chaos: On Luigi Pirandello
On the redemptive prose of Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello
Jeffrey TaylerAug 18, 2012
The Café and the Unfinished Revolution
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
Joseph DanaAug 15, 2012
Hubris and Envy: The Lehrer Affair
A very different take on l‘affaire Lehrer
Robert ZaretskyAug 14, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
The Epilogues
Alison Stine, Deborah Paredez, Jake Adam York, Lynn Melnick, Lytton Smith, Michael Heald, P. Scott Cunningham, Patrick Rosal, Sarah BlakeAug 13, 2012
Wilde in the Office
Kaya GençAug 12, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 6)
On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet
James Thomas Stevens, P. Scott CunninghamAug 12, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 5)
On Track and Swimming
Alison Stine, Michael HealdAug 10, 2012
The Problematic Political Messages of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Kelly CandaeleAug 9, 2012
Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves
On 'the lake has no saint' by Stacey Waite
Dana LevinAug 9, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 4)
On Trampoline and Women's Boxing
A. Van JordanAug 7, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 3)
The Ghost Sports: Baseball
Jake Adam York, Peter CampionAug 6, 2012