The Spirit of ’68

Exploding the Canon, Episode 3

Reedies Against Racism

Exploding the Canon, Episode 2

Sing, Muse

Exploding the Canon, Episode 1

Dancing the Imperial Twist

Julian Saporiti on mixing music with history as No-No Boy

Dying for Fashion

Dana Thomas on how our hunger for new clothes damages the environment and exploits workers

On the Line

Karen Pinchin on what tuna reveal about the fate of our oceans

Of Panic and Paranoia

Colin Dickey on the enduring power of secret societies and conspiracy theories

Man vs. Mosquito

Timothy Winegard on how this irritating insect changed human history—for better and for worse

The Falcon’s Odd Little Cousin

Jonathan Meiburg on the smartest bird you’ve never heard of

Imagined Cuisines

Anya von Bremzen on what makes a “national dish”

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

American Horror Story

Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear

The Writing on the Wall

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

This Woman’s Work

Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism

Queen of the Night

Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark

A Toothsome Tale

Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites

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