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Rebuilding Story Worlds
The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters
Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, the comics series The Obscure Cities represents one of literature’s most impressive pieces of world-building. Rebuilding Story Worlds explores both the artistic traditions from which the series emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space.
New Jersey State of Mind
Macbeth in Harlem
Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun
Lakota Hoops
Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Desired States
Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile
Becoming Philadelphia
How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
An Open Secret
The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia
The Social Life of Biometrics
Talking Therapy
Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
