Prufrock

Plus children and crisis, nuclear fusion, and more

Plus a history of dropping out, how Netflix will die and more

Plus, in praise of tweed, a not-so-reactionary J. C. Squire, and more

Plus the changing Chinese language, the poetry of Carol Shields, and more

Plus a history of clothing, Proust’s humor and more

Plus medieval sleeping habits, Francis Bacon behind the iron curtain and more

Plus Damien Hirst’s diamond skull, triggering Harry Potter and more

Plus a new translation of Baudelaire, the life of Stephen Crane, and more

Plus W.E.B. Du Bois and Wagner, the CD revival, and more

The other Rome, Van Gogh’s God, and more

In praise of VHS, the not-so-dark Dark Ages, and more

Also: Race is a spectrum; sex is binary

Another new media company, Longform calls it quits, and more

The tractor wars, temperance pledges, and more

The necessity of memory, in praise of Brian Moore, and more

Dickens’s other Christmas stories, what Big History misses, and more

The forgotten Free Silver Movement, revisiting Lucky Jim, and more

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, faking Native American heritage, and more

Modernists in Cali, the beginning of Europe, and more

In praise of night walks, Robert Frost’s letters, and more