Articles with keyword "popular culture"
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A “Mad, Hulking Carnival” of American Life
Breaking some of the rules made Tom Wolfe a better observer.
Conversation
Game Playing
NEH Chairman Bruce Cole and author Steven Johnson discuss how video games challenge the way we think.
Statement
Self-made Man
How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.
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The Color of Fashion
How two American women changed the stardards of style and scooped the Paris prognosticators.
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Humanities on the Brain
New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.
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Traveling Man
Illinois explores the history of the profession shared by L. Frank Baum, Benedict Arnold, and Johnny Appleseed.
Curio
Night Physik
From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.