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May 6, 2009

Ask a Scholar: Translating "Queering," "Race-ing," and "Worlding"

Peter Wood

A reader asks: What do identity hustlers mean when they use words like "queering," "race-ing," "worlding," etc.?

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January 20, 2009

Ask a Scholar/Ask a Critic: Suicide or Drug Overdose?

Carol Iannone

Does Lily Bart commit suicide at the end of Edith Wharton's novel, The House of Mirth, or does she die of a drug overdose?

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November 13, 2008

Ask a Scholar: Seatbelts on School Buses

Have you ever wondered whether science fiction is literature? Or whether Russia is part of 'the West'? Now is your chance to ask a scholar! Today, a rather unpretentious inquiry important to p......

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October 22, 2008

Ask a Scholar

Peter Wood

Have you ever wondered whether science fiction is literature? Or whether Russia is part of 'the West'? Now is your chance to ask a scholar!

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