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Strong Female Protagonists: Searching for Heroic Women at MoCCA Fest
Strong Female Protagonists: Searching for Heroic Women at MoCCA Fest
By Jacquelyn Gleisner
December 17, 2013

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual convention features about 400 participants but remarkably few leading women.

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10 Instances of Literary Censorship
10 Instances of Literary Censorship
By jake goldman
November 21, 2013

Censors: Shielding the youth of the world from curse words and genitals.

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10 Books That Stood Trial
10 Books That Stood Trial
By jake goldman
November 08, 2013

In which people get real upset over novelists and poets acknowledging the existence of sex and race.

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The 7 Strangest Reasons the F.B.I. Investigated Famous Writers
The 7 Strangest Reasons the F.B.I. Investigated Famous Writers
By Freddie Moore
November 05, 2013

On this, the anniversary of the F.B.I.’s report on Langston Hughes, we revisit the bureau’s oddest forays into the literary world.

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The Political Economy of Zombies
The Political Economy of Zombies
By John Powers
September 17, 2013

Over the past few years, the zombie apocalypse has come to represent an alternative to neoliberalism — an ideology that admits no alternatives.

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Looking for Porn in All the Wrong Places
Looking for Porn in All the Wrong Places
By Patrick Kilkelly
August 15, 2013

How pornography laws in the United Kingdom are changing — but not really

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Dorset, Minnesota Just Elected a 4-Year-Old Mayor
Dorset, Minnesota Just Elected a 4-Year-Old Mayor
By Justin Glawe
August 05, 2013

Mayor Bobby Tufts is a commodity, a public figure and a kid in a suit.

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Lincoln & the 1864 Election: (Occasionally Racist) Campaign Songs of Yesteryear
Lincoln & the 1864 Election: (Occasionally Racist) Campaign Songs of Yesteryear
By Patrick Sauer
July 22, 2013

The patriotic and vitriolic campaign songs of the 1864 election

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Strange Finds: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
Strange Finds: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
By jake goldman
July 01, 2013

Equal parts Mayor Joe Quimby and Larry the Cable Guy, George Plunkitt’s speeches are hilarious, sad and, at times, beguiling.

 

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Poetic Justice: Seven Presidents Who Moonlighted as Poets
Poetic Justice: Seven Presidents Who Moonlighted as Poets
By BBP Intern
May 10, 2013

Some of our most beloved U.S. presidents have tried their hand in poetry at one point in their lives, some only to be told they were better suited for politics (if even that).

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