Культура и идеи
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London’s Railway for the Dead
As London's graveyards overflowed, a private company proposed a remarkable new way to bury the dead. The post London’s Railway for the Dead appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
JSTOR Daily · EN
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The Rise and Fall of Shanghai’s “Sing-Song Girls”
How did celebrated entertainers become associated with a profession increasingly defined by exploitation? The post The Rise and Fall of Shanghai’s “Sing-Song Girls” appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
JSTOR Daily · EN
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The Disappearing History of America’s Nuclear Weapons
Once a key site of Cold War arms production, Rocky Flats is now a wildlife refuge. What happened to its troubled past? The post The Disappearing History of America’s Nuclear Weapons appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
JSTOR Daily · EN
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The Millions’ Great Spring 2026 Book Preview
As we slowly recover from one belligerent winter, we can look to spring as a time of growth, renewal, abundance—and nothing could be more abundant than the season’s noteworthy books. Below, you’ll find 140 titles out this spring that we’re excited about here at The Millions. Some we’ve already read in galley form; others we’re … The post The Millions’ Great Spring 2026 Book Preview appeared first on The Millions .
The Millions · EN
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The Millions’ Great Summer 2026 Book Preview
After a long and merciless winter, summer is upon us, and with it, the urgent need for beach reads, pool reads, park reads, fire escape reads, coffee shop patio reads—you get the point. We’ve got you covered. Below, you’ll find some 130 books out this summer that we’re excited about here at The Millions. Some … The post The Millions’ Great Summer 2026 Book Preview appeared first on The Millions .
The Millions · EN
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Meet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book collectors are (and can be) by highlighting original collections built by young women, often without the knowledge or help of the … The post Meet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize appeared first on The Millions .
The Millions · EN
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The Millions’ Great Fall 2026 Book Preview
The busiest season of the publishing year is upon us, bringing a deluge of books to sift through as you curate your TBR list. We’ve got you covered. Below, you’ll find some 130 books out this fall that we’re excited about here at The Millions. Some we’ve already read in galley form; others we’re simply … The post The Millions’ Great Fall 2026 Book Preview appeared first on The Millions .
The Millions · EN
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I Will Never Be the Pianist My Father Loves Best
An excerpt from Hudson by Hernán Ronsino, translated by Mallory Craig-Kuhn When Navia finally says my father is dead, I am about to go on stage to play. I don’t know why it is that in transcendent moments I always think of trivial things: the world opens out into a multitude of dots, and I […] The post I Will Never Be the Pianist My Father Loves Best appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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THE RADIANCE Finds Narrative Juice in the Ancient Greeks’ Forms of Love
I first encountered Ayad Akhtar’s work when I saw his groundbreaking play Disgraced towards the end of its Broadway run at the Lyceum Theater in New York City and before it won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The night was electric, on-stage and off-stage. I attended the show with my older sister and together […] The post THE RADIANCE Finds Narrative Juice in the Ancient Greeks’ Forms of Love appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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Essential Witchy Reads, Recommended by a Witch
I am a witch. A kitchen witch, specifically, meaning I make messes into magic and brew potions. Yes, you can drink them. I suppose I’ve always been a witch, but I didn’t embrace that part of myself until about 10 years ago. What happened was I went through some fresh yet familiar trauma, started my […] The post Essential Witchy Reads, Recommended by a Witch appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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The Afterlife Is Having a Flea Market
He Comes With a Lynchian Flashlight “We’re like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it’s like a light; it affects the environment.” – David Lynch When the flea market locks its doors on Zion Road,the locals rock on porches wrapped around by moonlight.Straight through midnight he floateth down perennialon a two-lane in black patent tapshoes […] The post The Afterlife Is Having a Flea Market appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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The Power of Touch in High Art
Don’t Touch the Art by DS Waldman The first time I brought my mother to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she reached out and touched one of my favorite paintings. I’d acquired a long-term press pass to the museum to help finish my first book, which features a number of ekphrastic poems and […] The post The Power of Touch in High Art appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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8 Novels About Spending Half Your Life at Work
If you work 40 hours a week, you spend about a third of your waking hours at work. When you add the time you spend commuting to work, complaining about work, and stressing about work, you’re looking at half of your conscious life spent in the workplace. I’m fascinated by how much of our lives […] The post 8 Novels About Spending Half Your Life at Work appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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Our Favorite Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry to Read for Halloween
As soon as the sticky summer air begins to dissipate and the first leaves transition into fiery reds and oranges, my instant desire is to cozy up with all things eerie and haunted. The winter holidays full of family, food, and chaos are imminent, but in this moment, I crave the youthful nostalgia of Halloween […] The post Our Favorite Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry to Read for Halloween appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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I Might Sleep With My Neighbor, If She Isn’t My Half-Sister
An excerpt from This Vital Absence by Sophia Veltfort Every few weeks, Dean posted a new video about famous musicians he’d known in his prime. Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd. He sat in a black mesh chair in what looked like a home office. Behind him, shelves painted a fading cerulean held slender statuettes […] The post I Might Sleep With My Neighbor, If She Isn’t My Half-Sister appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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How Balzac’s Extreme Coffee Habit Fueled His Productive Writing Routine
Even now, in this age when the very reading of literature is endangered — or so the articles tell us — Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) retains a notable ability to pick up new admirers. But even though he may have a decent readership by the standards of French novelists who died in the middle of […]
Open Culture · EN
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The Vibrant Color Wheels Designed by Goethe, Newton & Other Theorists of Color (1665–1810)
Maybe it’s the cloistered headiness of Rene Descartes, or the rigorous austerity of Isaac Newton; maybe it’s all the leathern breeches, gray waistcoats, sallow faces, and powdered wigs… but we tend not to associate Enlightenment Europe with an explosion of color theory. Yet philosophers of the late 17th and 18th centuries were obsessed with light […]
Open Culture · EN
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Inside the Making of the Sagrada Família, Barcelona’s 144-Year Megaproject
To get a sense of Sagrada Família’s popularity with YouTubers, you have only to take a look at the related Open Culture posts linked below. As will hardly escape your attention, most subjects that consistently draw the attention of the GoPro class are not nineteenth-century Catholic churches. But Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece, whose construction alone has […]
Open Culture · EN
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Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972)
What do Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, and Modest Mussorgsky have in common? They stand alone among their peers for their darkly humorous sensibilities, fascination with the grotesque, imaginative takes on cultural traditions, and a predisposition for the proto-surreal. Like the odd figure lurching through the first movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, they are […]
Open Culture · EN
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Watch 150 Classic Horror and Suspense Films Free Online: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead & More
From roughly the mid-nineteen-fifties through the mid-nineteen-seventies, the availability of airtime on American television stations exceeded their capacity to fill it with high-quality original programming. This was especially true in the hours when relatively few viewers were awake to tune in, a condition that gave rise to the late-night movie show. Specializing in lesser […]
Open Culture · EN
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Watch David Bowie Take MTV to Task for Failing to Play Music Videos by Black Artists (1983)
The old vaudeville phrase “Will it play in Peoria?” has its roots in the late 19th century, specifically in Horatio Alger’s novel Five Hundred Dollars; Or Jacob Marlowe’s Secret. Like all of the books Alger wrote extolling the virtues of thrift, study, grooming, industry, etc., this one articulates a middle American bootstraps philosophy and rags-to-riches mythology, while […]
Open Culture · EN
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A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy: From Logic to Epistemology to Metaphysics
These are, perhaps, not the very best times for humanities majors. Seldom do we even hear the once-standard defense that, by pursuing a course of study in subjects of that kind, students “learn how to think.” Such a justification still points to real value, at least in the most demanding settings. Take Harvard’s course Humanities […]
Open Culture · EN
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Can You See What Holds This Painting Together?
With his sly, vacant images, Roy Lichtenstein explored the distance that technology created between us and reality.
The Atlantic · EN