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Colonial Colette: From Orientalism and Egyptian Pantomime to Polaire’s Jamaican “Slave”
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Marie Kondo and Books: Tidying Up the Misconceptions
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“Acknowledgments in Essay Form:” Briallen Hopper’s Hard to Love
I agreed to review Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions a week before my long-time boyfriend broke up with me […]
Colorizing and Fictionalizing the Past: A Review of Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
Five years ago, the Imperial War Museum in London contacted Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) and tasked […]
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Take Back the Net: Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Should I post a tough parenting question on Twitter, ask my Facebook community, or email a few friends who are […]
Discovery, Interrupted
It was the third and final week of my first dissertation research trip. I’d spent my first two weeks moving […]
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