Jane Austen and the Making of Desire

On being a Regency fanboy, and America’s weird relationship with sex

The Three Percent

Literature in translation—including the first fiction ever published in English from Madagascar and Tibet

Witches Never Die

Burial practices around the world, from mummies to dancing skulls, and the history of magic’s bad girls

Back in the USSR

A glimpse inside the house that Stalin built, and Italy’s anti-fascist First Family

Once and Future Food

Imagining a new world of teas and tastes

Rhapsodies in Blue

Vulgar tongues, cruel etymologies, and a spot of poetry

Scientists and Saints

Women’s roles and rituals under the microscope

Lady Pirates and Oceans of Plastic

One very daring journey and the pirate who puts Blackbeard to shame

What the Nose Knows

Smell detectives, laughing gas, and all the forces we cannot see

Love Games and First Impressions

How to judge tennis—or a stranger’s face

Dawn of the Brain-Dead

Carl Elliott on the ethical implications of going beyond organ transplantation

The Extreme Path

Andrew Rankin on Japan’s infamous underworld

Call It Macaroni

Susan Stryker on her new book, Changing Gender

Blades of Grass

Christopher Kondrich on his poems of climatic catastrophe

The Translator Stuck

Amanda L. Andrei on her relationship with the Romanian language and her Romanian father

Riot Girls

Jessica Hopper shines a spotlight on the too-often-overlooked women of rock history

To the Manor Born

Adrian Tinniswood dissects the myth of the deteriorating British estate

The Industrial Revolution of Bees

Jennie Durant on the vicious cycle involving beekeepers and almond farms

The Geek Squad

A. D. Jameson on how the nerds finally won

Weather Kids and Panther Cubs

Zayd Ayers Dohrn on growing up on the run and in his parents’ revolutionary shadow

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