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Book cover of 'On Not Being Someone Else'

Nonfiction

Less traveled by

Published Fall 2020

Andrew Miller's 'On Not Being Someone Else' explores the existential questions that arise when reflecting on the choices we could have made—and how our lives might have changed / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Review: 'Badges Without Borders' by Stuart Schrader

Published Winter 2019

Lecturer Stuart Schrader's compelling history unpacks pressing challenges of militarized police and private security firms / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Review: Narges Bajoghi's 'Iran Reframed'

Published Fall 2019

This vital work of media scholarship explores how the Iranian regime communicates with the public—and the stories that emerge from propaganda / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Book review: Katrin Pahl's 'Sex Changes with Kleist'

Published Fall 2019

Heinrich von Kleist was ahead of his time in his considerations of gender and theater / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Green all over

Published Summer 2019

In 'Slime,' author Ruth Kassinger gives life-sustaining, omnipresent—and sometimes villainous—algae their long overdue star turn / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

Talking with Meredith Ward

Published Summer 2019

Director of the Johns Hopkins Program in Film and Media Studies discusses her debut book on the 'sound' of moviegoing / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Exploring the history of silence and film

Published Summer 2019

Meredith Ward explores what moviegoing has sounded like from the tumultuous days of the early silent cinema through the modern experience of watching media on a smartphone with earbuds in public / Johns Hopkins Magazine