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Clichés As a Political Tool
How prefabricated language helps everybody from prime ministers to CEOs disguise what they really want to say
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The Greatest Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
Robert Langlands’s work may have no practical applications—and he doesn’t mind at all
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Leonard Cohen’s Afterlife
A posthumous collection, finished days before his death, reveals the artist at his most intimate
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J.K. Rowling, Hollywood, and the Holocaust
In an era where Auschwitz is fading from memory, what do fictional movies about the Nazis owe to fact?
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Randy Boyagoda’s New Novel Is Both Deeply Catholic and Deeply Funny
In his third book, the author skewers the multicultural anxieties of today’s university culture
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Disruption: Tranna Wintour
Our culture’s narrow and oppressive constructs of masculinity and femininity limit us from being our true selves
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Extinction Sonnets
You couldn’t compete with them or with man, or so we think: extinction’s a mystery we’ll never understand
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Remembrance: Iskwe
Regardless of colour, culture, language, or class, we are all people first
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Love Letters from the Battlefield
How words kept my grandparents connected during the Second World War
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How to Give Solace When There Are No Words
A Catholic priest on the meaning of sermons in troubled times
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