Team players, home and away
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Broken tongue
Languages and Jargons
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Droplets from the springs of Vichy
French Cultural Studies
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Our blue-collar King
Graceland
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Enduring myths of hagiography
The Witch in History
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Decoding the concrete jungle
Space is the Machine
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The good enough life
Visions of Suburbia
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It's life, Jim, but not as we know it
Deny All Knowledge - Cult Fiction
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The arch medievaliser
A. W. N. Pugin
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Speaking volumes: David Williams's The Rebecca Riots
On David Williams's The Rebecca Riots. In the summer of 1955, when I had just graduated and was contemplating what to do with my life, I met David Williams and read his The Rebecca Riots, which had...
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An ambition harpooned
Herman Melville
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A loosed tide
W. B. Yeats
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an emigre historian: "When seeking for a partner worthy of the delectable Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm created the Duke of Dorset, an aristocratic paragon,...
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Greenblatt: Act 2, Scene 1
Stephen Greenblatt is an exponent of new historicism, a rather trendy theory that has divided academics. Now he has been asked by publisher Norton to help edit its Shakespeare. Jennifer Wallace talks...
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Aunt Deirdre says 'Economists, get out of the sandpit.' Now!
Deirdre McCloskey changed gender a few years ago. She was professor of economics at the University of Iowa at the time and known as Donald McCloskey. She argues that economics must reject the three...