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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

By Samantha Silva | December 21, 2017

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

By Tracy O'Neill | December 14, 2017

How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood

How Frances Marion and Mary Pickford Conquered Hollywood

Melanie Benjamin on Taking Inspiration from the Actor-Sreenwriter Team

By Melanie Benjamin | December 13, 2017

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Rare Beat Generation Paraphernalia, From the Legendary Collection of Julio Mario Santo Domingo

By Peter Watts | December 8, 2017

How the US Leveraged the Love of Fulbright Scholars like Sylvia Plath

By Merve Emre | December 6, 2017

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

By Peter Wortsman | December 5, 2017

Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History

When a Trillion Locusts Ate Everything in Sight

By Caroline Fraser | December 5, 2017

A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis

A Virtuoso Graphic Novel, Painted While in Hiding From the Nazis

From Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theatre?

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SILENCE = DEATH: How an Iconic Protest Poster Came Into Being

SILENCE = DEATH: How an Iconic Protest Poster Came Into Being

When People Need to Communicate with Each Other, There is Always the Street

By Avram Finkelstein | December 1, 2017

Tina Brown: How to Photograph the President of the United States

Tina Brown: How to Photograph the President of the United States

From the Diaries of a Legendary Magazine Editor

By Tina Brown | November 22, 2017

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo's Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo's Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

Traveling to the Heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón

By Anna Badkhen | November 21, 2017

How Forgotten Trailblazer Marjorie Hillis Helped Women Live Alone

How Forgotten Trailblazer Marjorie Hillis Helped Women Live Alone

Joanna Scutts on the Moment She Discovered the Original "Extra Woman"

By Joanna Scutts | November 20, 2017

A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

On the Trial of Anne Royall, Godmother to the Muckrakers

By Jeff Biggers | November 10, 2017

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