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Literature
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Berkeley Talks: A Poetry for the People conversation
March 26, 2022
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Early Mark Twain letter ‘peels away the mythmaking’
October 12, 2021
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‘Lift our gazes’ with new Berkeley summer reading guide
April 23, 2021
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The Bay Area (mini) Book Festival is back — with a virtual twist
October 1, 2020
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‘Exit West’ author Mohsin Hamid: ‘Migration is what our species does’
September 1, 2020
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Literature and the arts in times of crisis
April 29, 2020
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With There There, an intellectual connection across campus
August 23, 2019