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Can art make anything happen?
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Ted Hughes’s evasions
How sneakers became high fashion and big business
The ongoing struggle for voting rights
Karl Taro Greenfeld and the novel of inequality
Can shame shape society?
Bellow and the problems of literary biography
Torture, treachery, and the CIA
On the intellectual element in modern fiction
There were dozens of hippie acts in Haight-Ashbury in the late 1960s, but most people have only heard of a few: Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead.…
The contradictions of Cass Sunstein
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