What can we learn from the 19th-century commitment to reusability and upcycling, quality over quantity?
Elizabeth L. Block | Jan 17, 2022
An excerpt from Anthony Vidler’s classic book “The Architectural Uncanny.”
Anthony Vidler | Jan 3, 2022
Elizabeth Claire on the culture of dancing madness in post-terror Paris.
Elizabeth Claire | Dec 6, 2021
Sketches of bravery, determination, and inventiveness.
Portia James | Sep 23, 2021
Decisions about food and farming have always been decisions about how to structure the world.
Zoë Kopp-Weber | Aug 13, 2021
Transforming the Berlin Hitler loathed into a new world capital called “Germania” demanded the destruction of the urban core, eviction of its Jewish residents, recruitment of forced labor — and enrollment of the city’s infrastructure.
Timothy Moss | Jul 9, 2021
A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.
Charles G. Gross | Jun 11, 2021
An excerpt from Bini Adamczak’s book “Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future.”
Bini Adamczak | Apr 27, 2021
What a long-forgotten dispute over women’s access to public toilets in 19th-century England says about moral reform.
Robert Baker | Apr 16, 2021
The story of a numerical system nearly consigned to oblivion.
Stephen Chrisomalis | Mar 18, 2021
