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An American Obsession: The Evolving Genre of True Crime

Alex McDonaldNovember 18, 2022November 28, 2024

Americans have had a steady craving for true crime stories since the 1960s. Psychologists and experts have long sought tangible explanations for the guilt-inducing pleasure of consuming entertainment depicting real human trauma. True crime stories have evolved over time, taking…

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The Psychopolitics of the Émigrée Experience: On Reading Milan Kundera’s “Ignorance”

Gamze KazakogluApril 8, 2022April 11, 2022

In some rare cases, admiration of a masterpiece is personal. You try to resist the urge to underline every sentence and fold every single page to later return to it, and you become enchanted by the tiniest details across the pages. Milan Kundera’s “Ignorance” became one of these for me.

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Breaking Free: Joshua Bassett’s Journey Back from the Brink of Death

Lauren WilliamsApril 2, 2022November 28, 2024

“I realized that when you don’t have love for yourself then when other people hate you, it reconfirms the hate you already have for yourself. So you believe them – or when you have shame – you think you are unworthy of love,” Bassett said.

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Does Life Imitate Art? Rosario Murillo as Lady Macbeth

Adam McPhailMarch 22, 2022

Understanding Rosario Murillo in the context of Lady Macbeth helps us recognize the murderous viciousness that binds both figures together and fully makes us aware of the danger and cruelty of Murillo’s actions.

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Fashion Forward: Gen Z Politics and the Rise of Thrifting

Caleb DunsonFebruary 6, 2022November 28, 2024

The sign looked as though someone had taken the sides of several steel shipping containers, painted them with the brightest hue of red known to man, and hoisted them on the walls of an old factory building. “Village DISCOUNT OUTLET” was plastered in white across the building’s steel paneling, each letter appearing as if it had been stolen from a different restaurant sign.

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Artwork courtesy of the author Saenah Boch.

Where Two Worlds Collide: The Visionary Music of Mild High Club and Little Simz

Saenah BochNovember 2, 2021November 28, 2024

Both Little Simz’s “SIMBI” and Mild High Club’s “Going Going Gone” diverge from the artists’ previous projects, experimenting with eclectic sounds and building upon the work of important artists from older generations.

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Part 4: The Snack That Smiles Back

Ella AttellAugust 13, 2021November 28, 2024

You probably had a name for yours. Maybe it was “Fred” or the unironic “Goldie.” You took the car ride home to make plans: where Fred would live, how you would share all your meals together, and never spend a second apart.

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America’s Political Picasso: Hunter Biden

Alexa May RichardsAugust 3, 2021November 28, 2024

Biden will have to choose: to be a genuine artist or a political chess piece who happens to like watercolors.

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