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Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights
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Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
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From the author of Straw Dogs, John Gray's Gray's Anatomy is a pugnacious and brilliantly readable...
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture
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Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning...
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
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Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
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On Ne Nait Pas Femme: On le Devient: The Life of a Sentence
Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari
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The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier
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More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up...
The Ethics of Ambiguity
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In her second major essay, renowned French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir illustrates the ethics of...
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