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Now showing — Politics and Language · 5 works
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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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Seven connected stories about memory, politics, and identity in communist Czechoslovakia.
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Politics and the English Language is a 1946 essay or critical text by George Orwell, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
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Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.
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An envoy visits a planet of androgynous beings. Gender, politics, and ice.
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