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Complaints Choir: The World’s Mundane Grievances Set to Song
Complaints Choir: The World’s Mundane Grievances Set to Song

Rent is too damn high, the global musical.

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MetaMaus: Inside the Making of the Comic that Made History
MetaMaus: Inside the Making of the Comic that Made History

Why comics? Why mice? Why the Holocaust?

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Tales for Little Rebels: Radical Politics in Famous Children’s Books
Tales for Little Rebels: Radical Politics in Famous Children’s Books

What Dr. Seuss has to do with gender politics, or how Carl Sandburg carried out anti-war propaganda.

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The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee
The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee

What the dawn of the Czech avant-garde has to do with UN statistics and outsmarting Hitler.

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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last

From Ben Franklin to Qadafi, or what the Egyptian Revolution has to do with Harry Potter.

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Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda
Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda

A vintage card from the Tea Party playbook, or what the Kama Sutra has to do with the fall of the Roman Empire.

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The Communist Threat: A Trip Through America’s Ideological Wayback Machine
The Communist Threat: A Trip Through America’s Ideological Wayback Machine

From Walt Disney to Stalin, or how 1952 America interpreted the Soviet regime.

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Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran
Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran

Turning tragedy into a source of creativity, or why art doesn’t have to be street art to be politically subversive.

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Democracy & Despotism: 1940s Encyclopedia Britannica Films
Democracy & Despotism: 1940s Encyclopedia Britannica Films

Vintage lessons in civic harmony, or how small-scale common courtesy paves the way for large-scale peace.

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Believing Is Seeing: Errol Morris Unravels the Greatest Mysteries of Photojournalism
Believing Is Seeing: Errol Morris Unravels the Greatest Mysteries of Photojournalism

What Susan Sontag has to do with Twitter hoaxes and the untold stories of WPA propaganda.

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