All Essays

• Walking With Charlie

  A short story excerpted from the 'New Yorker' writer's 'The Lists of the Past'

  Aug 26, 2012
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  Letter From Bolivia: Waiting With the Aymará

  During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S.

  Lea AschkenasAug 26, 2012
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  Erika and Envy

  Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas

  Diana WagmanAug 25, 2012
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  Walking Mural: Asco and the Ends of Chicano Art

  Jim HinchAug 23, 2012

• The Mark of Capone: Chicago Violence Then and Now

  Aug 23, 2012

• Barnes without Barnes: on Philadelphia's New Barnes Foundation

  Aug 23, 2012
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  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'

  S. Kirk WalshAug 22, 2012
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  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
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  Consolation from Chaos: On Luigi Pirandello

  On the redemptive prose of Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello

  Jeffrey TaylerAug 18, 2012
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  The Café and the Unfinished Revolution

  On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'

  Joseph DanaAug 15, 2012
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  Hubris and Envy: The Lehrer Affair

  A very different take on l‘affaire Lehrer

  Robert ZaretskyAug 14, 2012
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  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
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  Wilde in the Office

  Kaya GençAug 12, 2012
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  We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 6)

  On Lacrosse and Wax Bullet

  James Thomas Stevens, P. Scott CunninghamAug 12, 2012
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  We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 5)

  On Track and Swimming

  Alison Stine, Michael HealdAug 10, 2012