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    Reading Science Fiction Politically – Midterms Edition

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    Next on August 10, 5-6:30 pm ET Reading Science Fiction Politically, Midterms edition explores climate crisis, artificial intelligence in politics, a reawakened Klan, and more by way of four recent novels and selected short stories. Have  you noticed that, as contemporary politics veers into the fantastical, more writers have embraced the fantastical, speculative, visionary, horror ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s

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    Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more

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