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Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

Porochista Khakpour on Loving—and Destroying—a Beloved Doll

By Porochista Khakpour | May 21, 2020

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

Renato Miracco on a Scandalized Italian Public

By Renato Miracco | May 21, 2020

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

Great Plagues Always Hit Workers the Hardest

Michael Robinson on Daniel Defoe's Fictional Account
of the London Plague

By Michael Robinson | May 20, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

On Mabel Stark, a Big Cat Trainer Ahead of Her Time

By Robert Hough | May 20, 2020

The Only Successful Coup in the US Began as a Campaign to Curb Black Voting Rights

The Only Successful Coup in the US Began as a Campaign to Curb Black Voting Rights

Lawrence Goldstone on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898

By Lawrence Goldstone | May 20, 2020

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One of Oscar Wilde's last stops in England before exile was a bookstore.

By Aaron Robertson | May 19, 2020

On the horribly awkward night James Joyce met Marcel Proust. (I still crave literary parties.)

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Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

On the City of Florence's Struggle to Get Back Dante's Body

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The City That Rejected the Poet Came to Regret It

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Dreams of America Behind the Iron Curtain

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