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Popular Fictions Jane Hu - 0
Everybody calm down. She’s great, she’s a manipulative genius. This is an objectively great album—not perfect, but very good, a good event in my...
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Let Them Eat Cake

Close Reading Adam Fales - 0
It started on July 8, 2020 with a video posted by Buzzfeed’s food and cooking channel Tasty, captioned “These Are All Cakes.” The video...
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SVU and the Problem of Justice

Bodies and Minds Carissa M. Harris - 0
Consider this fantasy of justice: a man defends his choice to marry and impregnate his thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit’s...
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Who Influences the Influencers? On SARK and Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Lite Feminism

Popular Fictions Sophie Brookover and Karen Corday - 0
We all know about GOOP. The dangers of jade yoni eggs, the cashmere joggers in a saved Chrome tab, the wildly popular Gwyneth profile...
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Rating Noel Fielding’s Great British Fashion

Popular Fictions Sarah Mesle - 0
(Warning: Spoiler's for Noel Fielding's Outfits on Season Ten of The Great British Bake Off) This season of GBBO reached Henry James-level subtlety in its explorations of...
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Of Monsters and Men

Popular Fictions Justine Murison - 0
(Spoilers for Season Three of Stranger Things) In these days of late capitalism, Halloween has largely been emptied of its original significance, its marking of...
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