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NEW Dædalus Issue—Winter 2021—On the Novel
We know what a novel is, but can we say the same about the novel? While any definition of the novel will fail us at some point, the interesting question is not what the novel is but what work the word novel does when we use it, or what reasons we may give for using it or not.
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Mar 10, 2021
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Empathy and Our Future
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Eric P. Liu, Sherry Turkle, and David W. Oxtoby
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Mar 18, 2021
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America’s Black-White Divide: Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward
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Lawrence D. Bobo, Henry Louis Gates, Margaret Levi, and Claude Mason Steele
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