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Class Struggles

This week, Lamorna Ash goes back to school for the latest reboot of Tina Fey's Mean Girls; and Professor Eric Naiman on the challenges of teaching in the age of ChatGPT.


'Mean Girls', screenplay by Tina Fey, directed by Samantha Jayne and

Arturo Perez Jr

'The Brothers Karamazov', by Fyodor Dostoevsky


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