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Semiotics Has Never Been More Thrilling

By Jordan A. Rothacker September 14, 2017

Laurent Binet’s latest novel is a great big joke, and a crash course in literary theory.

Lit World

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Aughts

By Jasmine Dreame Wagner September 11, 2017

Recalling art, sex, and personal politics in the twenty-first century.

Arts & CultureUSA

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An Inconvenient Movement

By Mimi Bluestone August 30, 2017

The problem with Al Gore’s latest documentary about the climate crisis is Al Gore himself.

Climate & Environment

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By the Horns

By Pippa Biddle August 28, 2017

The costs of doing business in Interior, South Dakota, population: 94.

Climate & EnvironmentUSA

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Semiotic Weapons

By Stewart L. Sinclair August 7, 2017

What Roland Barthes taught me about decoding the NRA's recent controversial ad.

PoliticsUSA

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Not Tragedy, but Atrocity

By John Patrick Leary July 25, 2017

Grappling with the legacy of the Algiers Motel Incident, half a century later.

ConflictUSA

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The Fire in Dunkirk

By Jacob Albert July 24, 2017

Shadows of life in a Kurdish refugee camp.

ConflictMENAPolitics

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Hunting for Morels, Finding a Mess

By Christopher Schaberg July 11, 2017

Scrounging for wild mushrooms, but discovering something else.

Bodies & Nature

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Video ad Absurdum

By John Washington July 5, 2017

How a collection of fifteen thousand Jerry Maguire VHS tapes reveals the ugly underbelly of the media-entertainment industry.

Arts & CultureUSA

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Ten Lessons from My History of Kissing

By Anne-Marie Oomen June 29, 2017

Number one: Learn in a tree.

The Kiss Family & Relationships

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The Unexamined Sex Life Is Not Worth Living

By Andrew Rose June 25, 2017

From this writing forward, the men who are saintly enough to have sex with me can call me by whatever name they like.

Family & RelationshipsSex