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Propaganda

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  • Politics

This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • August 10, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
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This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • August 3, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
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FUNNY WOMEN #141: How to Write about Eastern Europe

  • Ileana Florian
  • July 19, 2016
Use words like “nostalgia,” “paranoia,” and “amnesia” liberally.
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The Rumpus Interview with John Reed

  • Brett Rawson
  • June 27, 2016
John Reed discusses Snowball’s Chance, his parody of Animal Farm, and the lawsuits, debates, and discoveries that followed the book's publication.
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Poetry As Propaganda

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • December 30, 2015
Oxford academic Elisabeth Kendall has found that poetry may be a major recruitment tool for militant jihadis in the Middle East. Although poetry is often sidelined in Western cultures, it is…
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The Rumpus Interview with Zarina Zabrisky

  • Lindsay Merbaum
  • November 2, 2015
Zarina Zabrisky talks about her new book, Explosion, the art of the short story, Russia and Ukraine, and being "a Jewish pessimist in the spirit of Shalom Aleichem."
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Literature as Ideal Propaganda

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 18, 2014
During the Cold War, the CIA viewed literature as a potent tool to undermine the Soviet Union. Novels by George Orwell, Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce were smuggled…
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