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I teach a class at Bard College and Columbia University called “Imagining Nonhuman Consciousness.” We mostly read about ...

My upbringing denied me access to the arts and led to me bottling up my feelings about what was happening to me. Then I saw Eminem taking control of his destiny, and decided I needed to do the same ...

The memorial that remembers 58,318 veterans who died in Vietnam is meant as a reminder that any war must be justified, and ...

Anzia Yezierska wrote from experience then worked hard to make sure her work found an audience. Then a new audience found her ...

Before Christopher Nolan got there, the 1981 French/Japanese/Luxembourgian anime series called Ulysses 31 adapted The Odyssey ...

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In the student city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, an old prison has become one of the largest tourist attractions. The so-called student prison of the University of Göttingen was in use for almost 200 ...

The federal parliamentary seat of Lindsay, west of Sydney, was formed in 1984, honouring the great Australian illustrator and ...

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