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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Homecomings

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“Everyone wants some place to retreat, to collapse, to be at home—but you can’t always go home again. In the summer of 2001, my family and I moved into the Prospect-Lefferts Garden neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. I was 25. My partner was 24. Our son was 11 months.”

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Last Futures by Douglas Murphy review – utopian architecture, from space colonies to ziggurats

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“How the shining architectural optimism of the 1960s and 70s has ultimately produced buildings such as supermarkets, open-plan offices and other spaces of control 04.29 EST Last modified on Friday 15 January 2016 19.”

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Bohemians, Bauhaus and bionauts: the utopian dreams that became architectural nightmares

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“The theme of the inaugural London Design Biennale is Utopia to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s classic. Director Christopher Turner remembers the architects on a mission to make the world a better place”

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Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food

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“In 1932, the Soviet Union sent one of its best agents to China, a former schoolteacher and counter-espionage expert from Germany named Otto Braun.”

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Jacobite Train On Glenfinnan Viaduct Stock Photo

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“THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (“LICENSEE”) AND A SUBSIDIARY OF GETTY IMAGES, INC. (“GETTY IMAGES”).”

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The Feminists Of Wakanda

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The Appropriation Of Nina Simone

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