From 1933, a trio of travel reports on Stalin’s man-made famine in the Soviet Union. “‘Hunger’ was the word I heard most.”
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Los Angeles is on the verge of phasing out its oil wells. The fossil-fuel industry is not pleased.
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Imagine an ox bone reporting on two or three weeks of enemy attacks. And along with these divinations came dreams, previsions, sacrifices made in honor of a group of spirits, among which figured their royal ancestors.
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“I won’t bite you, I am a sane man.” A Ukranian Reddit user is translating war footage and news posts into English.
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For centuries, perhaps millennia, caffeine was something you ate. Aspiring writer and “medieval influencer” Lu Yu changed that.
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From last June, cookbook author Reem Kassis explains how she Googled her way to a publishing deal.
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The 2022 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, starts next week. Become a TMN Member for a 50% discount on new merch!
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Charles Ives wanted to use pitch to show God being “infinitely close to man”—but what is infinitesimally close pitch distance?
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Masked thieves steal €300,000 worth of equipment from the French set of Netflix’s heist drama Lupin.
↩︎ The Guardian
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