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How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Paul Fischer’s on a Dark Corner of Motion Picture Lore

By Paul Fischer | April 22, 2022

John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered <em>Bright Star</em>

John Keats on Film: Considering Jane Campion’s Exquisitely Rendered Bright Star

Lucasta Miller Investigates the Limits and Possibilities of Literary Biopics

By Lucasta Miller | April 21, 2022

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Taylor Brown on Looking to the Past (Which Isn't Even Past)

By Taylor Brown | April 21, 2022

The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

Vanessa Hua Follows Echoes of History Around the Dance Floor

By Vanessa Hua | April 20, 2022

An Inside Look at Judith Jones’ First Notes for Julia Child

An Inside Look at Judith Jones’ First Notes for Julia Child

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By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | April 19, 2022

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The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great—and the Quest for His Lost Cities

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great—and the Quest for His Lost Cities

Edmund Richardson on One Man’s Search for a Lost City

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How Langston Hughes Has Influenced Generations of South African Writers

How Langston Hughes Has Influenced Generations of South African Writers

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On the “Secret” Wedding of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

On the “Secret” Wedding of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

Or, When the Prude, the Filmmaker, and the Lovers Roadtripped to Santa Barbara

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