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​​I sat down with my roommate, bandmate, and friend of five years, Nathaniel Arango. He is an accomplished lyricist, and an occasional...

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Notable for her witty writing, Maureen Johnson is best known for her upper middle school books such as Suite Scarlett and Truly Devious....

​Caption: ​The Virgin Annunciate, Antonello da Messina, c. 1476. The Virgin is, here, come to the knowledge of her conception of Christ...

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​The question of national identity, and the questions of national sovereignty and territorial integrity which arise from the question of...

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Mr Smith Goes to Washington centers on the efforts of an individual senator against a legislature nearly totally corrupted by a political...

1 Caption: Tietê bus terminal, São Paulo, Brazil, 1996, Sebastião Salgado ​ To me this photograph embodies the relation of language and...

​1 ​ Language, as the existence of poetry signifies, inherently and inexorably fails. Produced by an individual who is by definition...

Milton’s Paradise Lost is at once conventional and subversive of convention: The epic draws from the tradition of heroic poetry, the...

It is a great power of literature to reflect contemporary society and politics. Through literature, as through art, the writer records...