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The Yellow Peril: Asian Invasions in the Racist Literature of Yesteryear

October 01, 2014

At the height of dime novel and pulp magazine popularity, alarmist writers concocted — to great fanfare — racist images of Asian super villains and military takeovers.

H. G. Wells’s Predictions: The Right, the Wrong and the Ugly

By Benjamin Welton

September 19, 2014

As a founder of science fiction, Wells got a surprising share the future right. He also got some things very, very wrong.

Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube

By George Dobbs

June 03, 2014

Yeats, Tolkien, Woolf — YouTube is a time capsule of authors’ voices you probably never thought you’d ever hear.

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.