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Literature in Time of War

Poetry has always been present in times of war but with mixed success at improving conditions.

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Vladimir Putin as Sauron

Putin resembles Sauron in various unsettling ways–and like as with Sauron, the world had a chance to stop him early and failed.

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The Novel that Upended the USSR

Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” so effectively aided Khrushchev’s destalinization project that it would be banned by Brezhnev.

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Estonia Calls, Obama Answers

Obama seemed to be responding to an Estonian poet in his NATO speech.

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