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Issue 13, Spring 2020

“Motivating Over the Hill”: The Cars Issue The Car and American Culture

Issue 12, Fall 2019

James Baldwin & American Democracy Eleven original essays exploring Baldwin’s elusive terrain between private and public, self and history

Issue 11, Summer 2019

Our Annual Best: “Chuck Berry’s Blues” The Common Reader’s print annual round-up.

Issue 10, Fall 2018

Frankenstein at 200 “It’s Alive!”

Issue 9, Summer 2018

You Say You Want a Revolution How 1968 redefined the world.

Issue 8, Winter 2018

Animals in the Human World Why they need us as much as we need them.

Issue 7, Winter 2017

Money Won’t Change You The Clash of Ca$h and Culture

Issue 6, Fall 2016

Mean Streets: Viewing the Divided City The Common Reader's Essays for the 2016 St. Louis International Film Festival

Issue 5, Spring 2016

The Agency of the Aged How aging changes us and our world.

Issue 4, Winter 2016

Let Yourself Go: The Triumph of Popular Music How we listen and why we listen to music.

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