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When Artists Lose Their Archives

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How Edo (Tokyo) transformed from a city on the brink of...

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Brooklyn “Wall of Tears” Lists Names of Children Killed in Gaza

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The Unruly Politics of Glitter

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“ Printing Films is a collection of vintage films...

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Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

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Why don’t filmmakers just film on location instead...

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Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

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Mona Lisa’s Face Redacted in Latest Trove of Epstein Files

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Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

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Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

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Dan Sinker writes about the transformative experience of...

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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

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Venom in His Veins

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“How did medieval French handwriting become...

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Do you remember Oddpost? It was an early email web app...

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Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself...

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The Forest-Like Interior of Coral Takes the Grand Prize in the CUPOTY 7 Photo Contest

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Why the Future of Movies Lives on Letterboxd

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The Art World After Epstein

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How selfish are we?

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Voluntary stories

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Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

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The Reason of Emotion: Bruce Lee’s Unpublished Writings on Willpower, Imagination, and Confidence

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