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Watch Spalding Gray perform <em>Our Town</em>’s legendary opening monologue.

Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Power of Ancestral Connections

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | April 16, 2021

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

Kim Todd Remembers the Fearless Women Who Changed the Trajectory of Memoir and Reporting

By Kim Todd | April 16, 2021

The Challenge of Editing a <br>Beat Legend

The Challenge of Editing a
Beat Legend

Garrett Caples on Working with Michael McClure

By Garrett Caples | April 16, 2021

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Mark Synnott on George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a Very Flimsy Rope

By Mark Synnott | April 16, 2021

Waste Not: A Brief History of the Urban Sewer System

Waste Not: A Brief History of the Urban Sewer System

Chelsea Wald on How We Get Rid of What We Don’t Want

By Chelsea Wald | April 15, 2021

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How Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg Found Their Voices at NPR

By Lisa Napoli | April 15, 2021

The Lesser-Known Protest that Kicked Off Gay Liberation in Los Angeles

By Jon Wiener and Mike Davis | April 15, 2021

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

By Stephen Walker | April 15, 2021

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

Simon McCarthy-Jones Offers a Brief History of
Small Human Vengeances

By Simon McCarthy-Jones | April 14, 2021

Soon you’ll be able to vacation at Jane Austen’s country estate . . . in a cowshed.

Soon you’ll be able to vacation at Jane Austen’s country estate . . . in a cowshed.

By Walker Caplan | April 13, 2021

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Goatskin, Tree Bark, and One Expensive Scribe: How “The King of the World’s Booksellers” Produced Manuscripts

Ross King on the Laborious Process of Bookmaking in the 15th Century

By Ross King | April 13, 2021

How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold<br> Rush Women

How History Has Failed to Tell the Story of the Gold
Rush Women

Brian Castner on a the Not-So-Secret Role of Women in the Klondike

By Brian Castner | April 13, 2021

Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Has anybody seen some loose ceremonial swords? The Truman Presidential Library wants them back.

Has anybody seen some loose ceremonial swords? The Truman Presidential Library wants them back.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

Andrea Pitzer on the Heroic—and Horrific—Arctic Voyages of William Barents

From the Time to Eat the Dogs Podcast with Michael Robinson

By Time to Eat the Dogs | April 12, 2021

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