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How do young people in Burma use karaoke as a form of political protest?

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Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."

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Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?

Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. 
 
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
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Celtic historian John Matthews tells Steve Paulson that Merlin probably was a real person and that wizards are related to our ancient shamans.

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This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.

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Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”

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Margaret D. Jacobs studies early 20th century policies in both the U.S. and Australia, that removed indigenous children from their homes.

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Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Sherlock Holmes' partner and later his wife.

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