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A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

Chelsea Iversen Asks: What If Northern Norway’s Accused Witches Fought Back?

By Chelsea Iversen | December 19, 2023

John F. Kennedy’s Last Movie: <em>From Russia with Love</em>

John F. Kennedy’s Last Movie: From Russia with Love

“Kennedy proclaimed his love for James Bond whenever he could.”

By Stanley Schtinter | December 18, 2023

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

Writing Without the Certainty of Return

By Sakiru Adebayo | December 18, 2023

Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism

Jennet Conant on the Adventures of One of America's First Female Foreign Correspondents

By Jennet Conant | December 15, 2023

The Memories of Streets: A Reading List of NYC Books That Capture the City’s Many Sides

The Memories of Streets: A Reading List of NYC Books That Capture the City’s Many Sides

Jonathan Wells Recommends Sam Lipsyte, E.L. Doctorow, Vivian Gornick, and More

By Jonathan Wells | December 14, 2023

What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

Tobias Becker Explores Popular Culture’s Continued Revival of the Past

By Tobias Becker | December 13, 2023

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By Meredith K. Ray | December 12, 2023

Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Everyone Needs to Read Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus | December 12, 2023

Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

By Simon Price | December 12, 2023

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

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

How the Neolithic Age Marked the Beginning of the Modern World

John Charles Chasteen on When Homo Sapiens Became Human, For Better and For Worse

By John Charles Chasteen | December 4, 2023

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