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For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created b
At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists: A Global
In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of super
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting env
Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his la
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (U Minnesota Press, 2
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind ever
Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and
How can Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” shed light on Lacan’s maxim
A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers d
In The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain (U Chicago Press, 2024) Seth
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disruptin
Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal
Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (U Nebraska Press, 2024) offers a new the
Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such a
Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric (U Alabama Press, 2024) is
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe;
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a ca
Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Col
The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Ara
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