August 18, 2023
The Rest Is History
Jigsaw puzzles, gun control, and thwarted revolutionaries.
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August 16, 2023
A Repugnance to Autobiography
George Eliot and her partner George Henry Lewes consider what an author leaves behind besides her books.
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August 11, 2023
The Rest Is History
A hacker market, an ancestral village, and a creepy love letter.
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August 07, 2023
Man of the People
The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.
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August 02, 2023
Helen of Troy Real—Not a Myth
Reimagining Helen’s story in early Hollywood.
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July 26, 2023
One Can Scarcely Help Clarifying Him
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
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July 24, 2023
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Meet the feuding twin sisters who popularized the American advice column.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.