The year was 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America was in full swing, and the Minneapolis-based Replacements were making moves. Following a string...
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Annals of CommunicationsHasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”In his standup specials, the former “Patriot Act” host often recounts harrowing experiences he’s faced as an Asian...
In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s...