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September 16, 2021
Turning to the libertine novels of the 18th century, this study provides an alternative history of French libertinage: spirited courtesans, noisy petits-maîtres, demystified...
September 16, 2021
The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830–1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its...
September 10, 2021
How War—and Racism—Makes Monsters out of Men Doyle Calhoun
September 9, 2021
Read Victor Brombert’s interview as one of the surviving “Richie Boys”, the secret US unit that helped the Allies win WWII, at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-...
July 11, 2021
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July 2, 2021
“Algérie. Le coup d’État de juin 1965, la révolution et l’Internationale situationniste”  Based on an archival research in the Beinecke Library (Khayati Papers), this article...