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The Essay Episodes

    Falling in Love AgainDietrich in Five Songs

    Marybeth Hamilton charts a song Dietrich initially loathed yet never stopped singing.

    Pause for ThoughtNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Florence Hazrat looks at the history of punctuation marks (such as brackets) and emojis.

    Opium TalesNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Fariha Shaikh reads accounts from Thomas de Quincey (1821) to Timothy Mo and Amitav Ghosh.

    Alexander and the PersiansNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander the Great.

    The Paradox of Ecological ArtNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Vid Simoniti considers eco-art from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng.

    A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age ParisNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.

    John Baptist Dasalu and Fighting for FreedomNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854.

    Ruffs in JamestownNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about life for C16 English settlers in America.

    African cinema, nationhood, and liberationNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé.

    Contesting an AlphabetNew Generation Thinkers 2021

    Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic script.

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