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Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

Nathalia Holt on What It Took to Break Into Animation in the 1930s

By Nathalia Holt | November 8, 2019

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

Nellie Bly Committed Herself to the Infamous Blackwell Island Asylum Just to Get the Story

By Susannah Cahalan | November 7, 2019

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

By Paul Hendrickson | November 6, 2019

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

From Vietnam Die-Ins to Occupied Parks, Stillness as Dissent

By Franny Nudelman | November 6, 2019

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

Mo Rocca on the Struggle to Depathologize Homosexuality

By Mo Rocca | November 6, 2019

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

Brendan Simms on Hitler's Stay in Prison, and the Scapegoating of Modernity

By Brendan Simms | November 5, 2019

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Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

By Lindy West | November 5, 2019

How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

By Sherrod Brown | November 5, 2019

A Century Before Springsteen, Stephen Crane Chronicled Asbury Park

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Cookbooks Are So Much More Than Recipes and Photographs

Cookbooks Are So Much More Than Recipes and Photographs

Joshua Raff on the Triple Pleasures of Memoir,
Travel, and Family History

By Joshua Raff | November 1, 2019

Elsa Hart on Writing an 18th-Century Crime-Solving Librarian

Elsa Hart on Writing an 18th-Century Crime-Solving Librarian

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Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

Creepy Stories (and More) from Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

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<em>A Most Rare Compendium</em>: <br> An 18th-Century Guide to Magical Treasure Hunting?

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Hereward Tilton on the Strangest of Manuscripts

By Hereward Tilton | October 31, 2019

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

American Gothic: The Woman Who Escaped the Asylum

On the 19th-Century Invention of the Madwoman

By Troy Rondinone | October 31, 2019

Ode to the Seine, River of Romance

Ode to the Seine, River of Romance

Elaine Sciolino on Art and Inspiration in the City of Lights

By Elaine Sciolino | October 31, 2019

The Day of the Dead: Day of Masquerade and Rebellion

The Day of the Dead: Day of Masquerade and Rebellion

"The mood is festive with a subtext of anarchy.

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