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On Wednesday, the small slice of humanity which is scattered across rural Russia, northern Spain, eastern Portugal, Iceland and Greenland will experience (and, if we’re lucky, actually see) a total eclipse of the Sun....
Read article →On The Catcher in the Rye at 75, Hemingway, and the influence of war on the history of American masculinity. | Lit Hub Criticism Oil companies know they’re destroying the planet, but they still choose profit. | Lit Hu...
Read article →These are strange times for Silicon Valley. “Tech” no longer feels like a discrete industry, or a cluster of upstart companies in Palo Alto riding the optimism of the Obama years. It’s the infrastructure underpinning ...
Read article →Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal cover, that fit snugly in a G.I.’s...
Read article →For well over a century now, families have sported rows of rictus grins for the camera, but the subgenre of family portraiture (and, later, video clips) dedicated to conception, gestation, and birth is very much a pro...
Read article →Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. “What happens is far beyond the work of ...
Read article →I’m named Eleanor because I was born a week after Eleanor Roosevelt came to Kansas City to campaign for her husband. At the time, my parents were living in Rolla, Missouri, and my mother said that even if not for
Read article →For a coterie of dandyish readers during the Victorian Mauve Nineties, The Yellow Book provided something novel—book cover designs. When the literary quarterly released its first volume in the spring of 1894 it was wi...
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