Essay
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Three Variations on Vision
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What is Cultural Criticism Today?
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Reading the Body: Simone Weil and the Perils of Hagiography
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Translating Silence: Classical Chinese and the Poetry of Li Shangyin
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The Sticking Point: The Intellectual and the Fountain Pen
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Parable of the Fishers: Racial Contempt and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
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Cinema’s Body Problem: How the Box Office Killed the Sex Scene
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Who Will Watch the Watchers?