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Reading in Public: Tales of Love and Literature, Pt. I

By Adina Applebaum

July 22, 2014

Falling for a straphanger reading The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on the subway in New York.

Real World Revisited

By Sarah Bennett

April 05, 2013

Re-watching the original 1992 Real World is enough to make you really depressed.

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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.