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  Long Lasting Days

  By MINA KARAVANTA These days I take the long way to work, past the old international airport of Athens, the “Hellinikon”, located on Poseidonos Avenue washed by the ...

  On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
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  Unlovable Neighbors: The living architecture of my Philadelphia neighborhood

  By MARCO ROTH The old man stands motionless, feet shoulder-width apart, atop the steam grate at the back of the convenience store on the 13th street side. He ...

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  How to Win Your Grad Union

  By ANDREA CROW In early 2014, I got a phone call late at night from a fellow Columbia Ph.D. student telling me that a group of graduate workers ...

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  The Original Pussyhat?

  By BRAD EVANS Of the thousands of demonstrators marching the day after the inauguration, a good percentage were wearing what Rod Dreher of The American Conservative decided to call, ...

  On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
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  Anti-Semitism?

  By BRUCE ROBBINS This essay was first delivered as a talk on a panel called “New Classroom Boundaries” at the Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia in January. ...

  On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
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  Ending of the American Century

  By JAMES LIVINGSTON So much for the horror of that neoliberal bond between Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton.  I hope your vote wasn’t cast as a result of such ...

  On February 27, 2017 / By Editor
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  World Literature Needs World Philosophy: Buddhism and Kipling

  By AVI ALPERT The development of the concept of world literature is one of the great accomplishments of literary study over the past few decades. Not only has ...

  On November 25, 2016 / By Editor
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  The “(anti)virus” in Europe: conjuring “refugees” and “migrants”

  By CHLOE HARALAMBOUS On 18 September, a group of Greek “patriots” congregated in the main square by the harbour of the Aegean island of Lesvos. Summoned by cadres ...

  On November 25, 2016 / By Editor
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  Smaller and Less Beautiful: Refusal Aesthetics in the Contemporary Novel

  By ANASTATIA CURLEY Pay attention to what contemporary novelists say about novels, and you might start to wonder why they’re writing them at all. Karl Ove Knausgaard writes ...

  On November 25, 2016 / By Editor
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  TED and Trump

  By MINOU ARJOMAND Pop quiz: which of the following quotes are taken from speeches by Donald Trump? We are essentially trying to build a more awesome government,for the ...

  On November 25, 2016 / By Editor