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Kafka Was a Terrible Boyfriend

Kafka Was a Terrible Boyfriend

Read Franz Kafka's "Love Letters" to Felice Bauer

By Eleanor Bass | February 14, 2018

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

Matters of the Heart, from Arthurian Legend to Tristan and Isolde

By Marilyn Yalom | February 14, 2018

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

The Horse: Beloved Metaphor of Your Favorite 19th-Century Novelists

How One Animal Came to Symbolize Love and Broken Marriages

By Ulrich Raulff | February 12, 2018

How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism

How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism

Simon Callow on a Great Composer Getting Political

By Simon Callow | February 7, 2018

Capturing the Artists, Hustlers, and Junkies of 1960s Pittsburgh

Capturing the Artists, Hustlers, and Junkies of 1960s Pittsburgh

How the Blues Inspired Playwright August Wilson

By Mark Whitaker | February 1, 2018

On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson's

On the Death of JFK and the Birth of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"

When History Changes in an Instant

By Joshua Zeitz | February 1, 2018

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By George Hutchinson | January 26, 2018

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

By Justin Spring | January 18, 2018

On the Decision to Publish the Largest Leak in the History of American Power

By Jeff Himmelman | January 10, 2018

What Happens When There's a Madman in the White House?

What Happens When There's a Madman in the White House?

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

By Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis | January 10, 2018

How to Dig a Hole—and Other Pieces of 1,000-Year-Old Wisdom

How to Dig a Hole—and Other Pieces of 1,000-Year-Old Wisdom

Alexander Laglands Looks Into the Old Way of Doing Things

By Alexander Laglands | January 2, 2018

Storage Space for the Undead: Inside the Cryonics Business

Storage Space for the Undead: Inside the Cryonics Business

Thomas Mira y Lopez Considers the Search for Eternal Life (and Frozen Heads)

By Thomas Mira y Lopez | December 28, 2017

Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners

Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners

And How it Led to His Writing A Christmas Carol

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How to Tell the Story of Bethlehem

How to Tell the Story of Bethlehem

Christmas Pudding in the Holy Land

By Nicholas Blincoe | December 20, 2017

Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine

Our Tonya: Growing Up in Thrall to an American Antiheroine

Tracy O'Neill on the Symbolic Heft of Tonya Harding

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How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood

How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood

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