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Julie Englander is a documentary producer based in Chicago and the author, most recently, of the Chicago Reader cover story “Defending Strauss,” about University of Chicago philosophy professor Leo Strauss.
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Culture
Closeted Russia
A LGBT film festival gets shut down in St. Petersburg, 15 years after homosexuality became legal in post-Soviet Russia
Julie Englander