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How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

On Writing Her Own Cookbook, After Gertrude Stein

By Justin Spring | January 18, 2018

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

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

When the Washington Post Printed the Pentagon Papers, It Changed American Journalism

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

By Samantha Silva | December 21, 2017

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By Melanie Benjamin | December 13, 2017

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

Neal Cassady's Mugshot, Allen Ginsberg's Stars and Stripes Hat, and More

By Peter Watts | December 8, 2017

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

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

When Romance Becomes a Geopolitical Transaction

By Merve Emre | December 6, 2017

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

From Balzac to Max Jacob, a Pilgrimage to Bygone Genius

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?

By Literary Hub | December 1, 2017

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

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