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Book Review: The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
La France profonde, as it never was in the traditional histories: Breton sex torture and year-old bread.
Read More »Book Review: The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
An enjoyable read and reference book.
Read More »Book Review: The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
Real people, not just political stances, help focus an examination of the cultural battle over comic books.
Read More »No Place Like Home: Digging New York
You could live or work in this neighborhood your whole life and never know about the grisly things that happened here.
Read More »The New World Order, Part I
We're living in unprecedented times, as the State and the corporation vie for power. Welcome to the brave new world.
Read More »Book Review: Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature – Reading Women’s Lives 1600-2680 by Sharon Cardamn Seelig
Asks what did the women mean, how were they feeling, and how do I feel when I read them?
Read More »Book Review: This Republic of Suffering – Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Harvard University's president examines how hundreds of thousands of Civil War deaths changed America in unexpected ways.
Read More »Interview: David Parra, World Food Programme Officer, Colombia
Children are the hardest hit by the conflict and poverty in the country.
Read More »Archaeology Finds The Craziest Things
Text messages, multi-tasking architecture, and buried blunt.
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