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Voices In Time

1851 | Frankfurt

A Little Life

Schopenhauer on timing one’s thoughts.More

Voices In Time

1628 | London

On the Evidence

Owen Felltham discovers himself via dream.More

Voices In Time

c. 95 | Rome

Midnight Oil

Quintilian pulls an all-nighter.More

Voices In Time

1863 | Chancellorsville, VA

Walt Whitman’s Still There

The battlefield at night.More

Voices In Time

1763 | London

Flicker Account

James Boswell needs to recharge.More

Voices In Time

1871 | Washington, DC

Horror Story

Congress investigates the Ku Klux Klan.More

Voices In Time

c. 1250 | Egypt

Fade to Black

A plague of darkness descends.More

Voices In Time

2014 | Dripping Springs, TX

Forrest Wilder Dims the Lights

Looking for the night sky in an overlit world.More

Voices In Time

1662 | England

Brain Distrust

Margaret Cavendish bemoans the limits of the drowsy world.More

Voices In Time

1833 | Whitcross

Under the Heavens

Charlotte Brontë looks for answers in the stars and on the heath.More

Voices In Time

1917 | Nettleton Lake

Dancing in the Dark

Edith Wharton sets off fireworks.More

Voices In Time

1762 | London

Nightmare

Beware the hag.More

Voices In Time

c. 1940 | Vermont

Late Shift

Roaldus Richmond talks to the night man.More

Voices In Time

1898 | Antarctica

Dawn’s Early Light

Frederick A. Cook endures three months of Antarctic night.More

Voices In Time

1908 | Chicago

Link-Boys

William Hard looks upon the admirable institution of night.More

Voices In Time

c. 1880 | Poughkeepsie, NY

Stargazing

Maria Mitchell tells you to look up.More

Voices In Time

1894 | New Siberian Islands

Sleepless in Siberia

Fridtjof Nansen is mesmerized by an Arctic sky.More

Voices In Time

1911 | Alaska

Legendary Night

Raven brings back the light.More

Voices In Time

c. 200 | Ephesus

Taxonomy

Artemidorus dreams of sheep.More

Voices In Time

360 BC | Athens

All Hours

Plato devises a life hack.More

Voices In Time

1867 | London

Value Judgment

Karl Marx excoriates vampire capitalism.More

Voices In Time

1888 | Saranac Lake, NY

Dream Sequence

Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dreamer.More

Voices In Time

1851 | London

Pit Stop

Henry Mayhew on nightmen’s work.More

Voices In Time

1920 | London

One Nightstand

H.M. Tomlinson lays out a philosophy of reading in bed.More

Voices In Time

c. 100 | Rome

Call It a Day

Plutarch unpacks the night.More

Voices In Time

c. 1905 | Salt Lake City

You Want It Darker

Jack Black cases the joint.More

Voices In Time

1862 | Port Royal, SC

In the Same Boat

Charlotte Forten Grimké hears of an escape by night.More

Voices In Time

1851 | London

Wanders Never Cease

Charles Dickens goes for a walk.More

Voices In Time

c. 550 BC | Athens

Tell a Vision

Bottom has a most rare vision.More

Voices In Time

c. 1785 | Paris

Wee Hours

Louis-Sébastien Mercier diagrams the night.More

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