History of Madness by Michel Foucault
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Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
January 12, 2025Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...

Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
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Trailer Watch: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral
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Roses & Bulbul Birds
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Nick Bottom’s Blessing
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Life, Death and Hip-Hop
August 12, 2024Within Hip-Hop we discover the struggle of the artist to make sense of their unjust world...
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
August 5, 2024By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...






