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Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

When the Culture Wars Came for <em>Monty Python’s Life of Brian</em>

When the Culture Wars Came for Monty Python’s Life of Brian

“A film so funny they banned it in Norway!”

By Kliph Nesteroff | December 8, 2023

Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

Royally Sweet: How Hot Beverages Became All the Rage in 18th Century Britain

Gareth Russell on Grace Tosier, The Woman Who Brought Chocolate to King George I's Court

By Gareth Russell | December 8, 2023

Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

Walter J. Scheirer on L0pht Heavy Industries and the Origins of Modern-Day Online Deception

By Walter J. Scheirer | December 7, 2023

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

Zahra Hankir Explores the Cosmetic’s Relationship with Beauty, Power and Spirituality

By Zahra Hankir | December 5, 2023

“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

“There were just so many layers and so many colors. Even if all the colors were dark.”

By Dylan Jones | December 5, 2023

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Charles Scribner III on Three Generations in the Book Business

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From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

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How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities

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