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writer, work in @nymag.com, @newrepublic.com, @nplusonemag.com + more willtavlin.com

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 27/07/2026
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have a new essay in the latest issue of @nplusonemag.com about the last Sundance in Park City. In print, online, now unpaywalled www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...
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Resort to Boulder | Will Tavlin
Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation. As it happens, two of the best...
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/05/2026
Now out from behind the paywall: @tavlin.bsky.social’s journey to the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, from our Spring 2026 issue.
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Resort to Boulder | Will Tavlin
Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation. As it happens, two of the best...
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/05/2026
oh fuck, new Will Tavlin essay
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Resort to Boulder | Will Tavlin
Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation. As it happens, two of the best...
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Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
One of @nplusonemag.com's very best issues ever is almost here, featuring journeys to mountaintops, artificial islands, fish processors, William Gass's interior life, and much more. Subscribe to read it as soon as it's out—20% off w/ discount code EXCURSIONS. www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
Cover of Spring 2026 issue of n+1
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 21/04/2026
n+1 Issue 53: EXCURSIONS is almost here! Featuring Will Tavlin at Sundance, Mina Tavakoli at sea, Grace Glass in Alaska, Morley Musick in ICE-raided Chicago, Nicholas Dames on William Gass, Dennis M. Hogan on Greg Grandin—and much more. Subscribe by May 4 to read it in print.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given in—and the streaming giant now controls the future. That’s bad for pretty much everyone.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...
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Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
Movie studios have given in—and the streaming giant now controls the future. That’s bad for pretty much everyone.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
German translation of "casual viewing" out now from @woz.ch www.woz.ch/wobei/26-1/n...
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Im Reich der Kacheln
Filme wie Spültabs: Wie Netflix sein Streamingimperium aufgebaut hat.
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Reminder that Penske Media employees are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. You’re not.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 01/01/2026
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
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Who Is Mubi For?
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart." www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
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Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I have a new piece in the latest @nymag.com about the crisis at Mubi www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
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Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit? www.cjr.org/feature/reci...
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Recipe Book: What the press crisis in Gaza portends.
What the crisis for press freedom in Gaza portends.
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Manohla Darkness @manohladargis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
a good, smart piece on Netflix www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah
In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 15/09/2025
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”
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‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...
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A Tipping Point at CBS News
“Who would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?” Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?" www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is the most entertaining thing I’ve read in some time, and extremely insightful about the coroprate bland-ification of American life.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Lisa Borst and I spoke to @hamrahrama.bsky.social about the new Cracker Barrel logo www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst
Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....
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Manohla Darkness @manohladargis.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
As long as we’re on the subject of Netflix and movies (however reluctantly!) I recommend this piece by @tavlin.bsku.social about why so many Netflix movies suck: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Fascinating and depressing article on why almost everything on Netflix is shit
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I went to Il Cinema Ritrovato for @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2025-...
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The Cannes Film Festival of Old Movies
How Il Cinema Ritrovato became an international destination for film fanatics.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
a political consultancy that does what now?
While identifying Jewish voters is difficult, Jerry Skurnik of Engage Voters U.S., a political consultancy that counts those with distinctive Jewish surnames, put the Jewish electorate in New York at roughly 13 percent of the city's 4.6 million active registered voters.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you're near a landlord, go put your hand in his pocket for no reason
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 19/06/2025
He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”
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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts
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Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 20/05/2025
n+1’s 50th issue is out today! Feat. @hzeavin.bsky.social, Andrew Liu, @hamrahrama.bsky.social, @richardbeck.bsky.social, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Gemma Sack, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane. www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
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Issue 50
Content filed under the Issue 50 taxonomy.
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Time to Face Reality
Emily Nussbaum charts the history of a TV phenomenon – A.S. Hamrah
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’
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John Fetterman’s Struggle
The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’ll be speaking about Netflix and Casual Viewing at Stanford shortly. Zoom link here: events.stanford.edu/event/four-l...
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Four L.A.S.E.R. talks: Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, Islamic Architecture, Art in an Algorithmic World, Casual Viewing
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The thing about "it's so important to read people who interview people who work at these companies" is the giveaway. The idea that only people who work inside a company can understand it is how journalists become stenographers
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security's "death master file," which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW—DHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas." Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.
DHS spokesperson: “Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national and Tufts University graduate student, granted the privilege to be in this country on a visa. DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege not a right.  Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated.  This is commonsense security.”
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
my god
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What's up with Variety doing Wikipedia hagiography for Netflix lately? This reads like an excerpt for a nonexistent boosterish Netflix memoir, several of which already exist variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Netflix’s Origin Story: How the Streamer Killed Blockbuster Video, Snagged ‘House of Cards’ From HBO and Changed Hollywood Forever
Ted Sarandos, Reed Hastings and other Netflix execs explain battles with Blockbuster and HBO, winning 'House of Cards' and streaming domination.
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Generally not a great sign when Dan McCrum starts looking at a small discrepancy in your company's balance sheet www.ft.com/content/62df...
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$1.4bn is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla
When money spent on assets doesn’t result in assets
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Tapping the sign
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 07/03/2025
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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