Examining the crossroads of crime writing

This is a guest post by Meghan P. Nolan & Rebecca Martin, author of The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces There is no doubt that crime writing is now one of the most widely read genres of writing; there is something for everyone in sheer variety...
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This is a guest post by Paul Allen Miller, author of Theory Does Not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Rhetoric The world we live in is not that of Plato’s Socrates. It is a world of fragments. The tropic language with which we try to...
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America’s once and future king

This is a guest post by W. B. Allen, author of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws: A Critical Edition My new translation of and commentary on Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws has been recently released (Anthem). I prepared the work upon the consideration that it would be only the third...
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