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Now showing — Politics and Language · 5 works

  • 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...

    PowerUrban isolationMemory
  • Seven connected stories about memory, politics, and identity in communist Czechoslovakia.

    MemoryIdentityMigration
  • 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.

    ModernityResistanceIdentity
  • Great Wall Music · 1990s

    Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.

    After-hoursLonging
  • An envoy visits a planet of androgynous beings. Gender, politics, and ice.

    PowerMemoryMigration
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  • Great Wall Music
  • Letters and Politics 2020-11-18, “The Failure of the War on Terrorism” Music
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  • Politics and the English Language Essays
  • Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance Essays
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  • The Bonfire of the Vanities Books
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being Books