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Politics and the English Language
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Great Wall
Carries a strong pull into books through longing and South Asia.
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Letters and Politics 2020-11-18, “The Failure of the War on Terrorism”
Carries a strong pull into books through longing and Southern Europe.
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Politics and the English Language
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carries a strong pull into essays through migration and South Asia.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and South Asia.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...
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Great Wall
1990s
Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1980s
Love, politics, and philosophy in Prague Spring. Lightness versus weight as existential choice.
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Politics and Language
2010s
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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
The founding cultural-studies text for reading Hong Kong cinema, architecture, and writing through the logic of disappearance.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Seven connected stories about memory, politics, and identity in communist Czechoslovakia.
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Music 2010s
Terrorism: The Politics of Language
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The Left Hand of Darkness
An envoy visits a planet of androgynous beings. Gender, politics, and ice.
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Music 2020s
Letters and Politics 2020-11-18, “The Failure of the War on Terrorism”