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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.

Issue 3, Fall 2015

To Serve And Protect Policing through the years, and where it has led us.

Issue 2, Spring 2015

Plates, Pods, And Politics Is our obsession with food neurotic?

Illustration of Robert De Niro by Matt Kindt
Issue 1, Fall 2014

You Talkin’ To Me? The Controversies of Language

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In 2023, the Bond franchise celebrates its 70th anniversary. Very few franchises, with the exception of the Universal Classic Monsters and Godzilla series have enjoyed such a long life in popular media like film. Like them, the Bond franchise has seen many new beginnings which continually restart the property, which perpetually reset it, and which are bound to do so again.

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