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  1. Our Current Issue

    Our Fall 2011 issue features Leo Bersani on Descartes and Freud, Daniel Morgan on Max Ophuls, and more.  Click through for the Table of Contents and links.

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  2. Web Exclusive: Hillary Chute interviews Alison Bechdel

    This summer Hillary Chute visited Bechdel at her home in Jericho, Vermont, to ask her about comics, space and time on the page, and her new work.

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  3. The Wire: Continuing Debate

     

    William Julius Wilson and Kenneth Warren continue their debate on HBO's The Wire and housing policy.

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  4. New from CI Books: Saints

    In the newest book from Critical Inquiry, Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner bring together top scholars to examine saintly grace, energy, and charisma.

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  5. Web Exclusive:

    Read articles before they appear in print and learn what's next…

    Our Winter issue will feature Meir Wigoder on Palestinian morgue photography, plus Alain Badiou, W.J.T. Mitchell, Richard Moran, Jacques Rancière and others.

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  6. The CI Professor: Leo Bersani

    Since 2003, the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been held by some of the world’s most renowned scholars.  Our Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor for 2011-2012 will be Leo Bersani.

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  7. Web Exclusive: Debating Literary Darwinism 

    Jonathan Kramnick's 'Against Literary Darwinism,' with new responses by Paul Bloom, Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, Vanessa L. Ryan, G. Gabrielle Starr and Blakey Vermeule—and a rejoinder by Kramnick.

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  8. In the Moment:  The CI Blog

    In the Moment: The CI Blog features theoretically sophisticated interventions in current politics, art, and scholarship by CI’s board members and contributors

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