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Chaucer’s Plague Tales
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Chaucer’s Plague Tales

By / 1 June 2020

In 18 months, the "Great Pestilence" of 1348-49 killed half of England's population, and by 1351 half the population of the world. Chaucer's plague tales reveal the conservative edges of an astonishingly innovative medieval poet.

Weapons of Poetry and Images: On the Works of Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Weapons of Poetry and Images: On the Works of Pier Paolo Pasolini

By / 17 October 2017
A thread runs through Pasolini's artistic and political work for which he used various terms to identify the sacred, the mythic, the soul, and the spirit -- all strategies for appreciating life in even the most difficult circumstances.

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Liberation Blues: Tinariwen Invoke the Sahel’s Complex History on ‘Amatssou’

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No Sex Please, We’re British: Coil’s Subversively Overt Homosexuality
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No Sex Please, We’re British: Coil’s Subversively Overt Homosexuality

By / 5 June 2023
Jeff Buckley’s ‘Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk’ at 25
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Jeff Buckley’s ‘Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk’ at 25

By / 2 June 2023
Ranking the 34 ‘Ted Lasso’ Episodes
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Ranking the 34 ‘Ted Lasso’ Episodes

By / 1 June 2023