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24,629karma·1,594submissions·September 16, 2014
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87 pts
Ichiki Shirō(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·8 comments
37 pts
Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins(quillette.com)
2y ago·11 comments
76 pts
The whale fact chapters in Moby-Dick are among the most memorable(countercraft.substack.com)
2y ago·76 comments
37 pts
Sliding Doors: The Time GM Fumbled Its Chance to Launch the First Minivan(thedrive.com)
2y ago·34 comments
1 pts
In the Forest of the Colobus(theamericanscholar.org)
2y ago·discuss
90 pts
Christmas on the Moon(longreads.com)
2y ago·8 comments
109 pts
What it takes to save the axolotl(nytimes.com)
2y ago·48 comments
91 pts
American librarians helped defeat the Nazis(daily.jstor.org)
2y ago·16 comments
67 pts
The 50 Years That Made America(historytoday.com)
2y ago·79 comments
11 pts
When I Met the Pope(lrb.co.uk)
2y ago·1 comments
43 pts
The Death of a Relic Hunter(newyorker.com)
2y ago·16 comments
157 pts
The Mummy(en.wikipedia.org)
2y ago·21 comments
37 pts
Joyce Carol Oates's relentless, prolific search for a self(newyorker.com)
2y ago·4 comments
23 pts
The Naturalist and the Jay(hakaimagazine.com)
2y ago·4 comments
78 pts
Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat"(lareviewofbooks.org)
2y ago·10 comments
106 pts
Lapham's Quarterly Is on Hiatus(laphamsquarterly.org)
2y ago·17 comments
22 pts
Family recipes that live on in cemeteries(atlasobscura.com)
2y ago·1 comments
57 pts
The emptiness of literature written for the market(noemamag.com)
2y ago·55 comments
40 pts
Thomas Stevens in Japan (1886)(japanbiking.com)
2y ago·8 comments
52 pts
Four historians tell us a ghost story(historytoday.com)
2y ago·3 comments
1 pts
NYPL showcases 'electrifying' rare subway photos from 1970s(gothamist.com)
2y ago·discuss
15 pts
The Middle State: Famous Owners of a Controversial Text(blogs.loc.gov)
2y ago·3 comments
76 pts
Louise Glück has died(nytimes.com)
2y ago·11 comments
2 pts
America's First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon(smithsonianmag.com)
2y ago·discuss
34 pts
How to Design a Vernacular Chair(christopherschwarz.substack.com)
2y ago·7 comments
105 pts
Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty(newyorker.com)
2y ago·65 comments
80 pts
The Quiet Revolution of the Sabbath(newyorker.com)
2y ago·98 comments
56 pts
Sketches of misfortune in an insurance trade card(forgottenfiles.substack.com)
2y ago·28 comments
8 pts
Travelin’ man and woman: Taking to the road and the boxcar(the-tls.co.uk)
2y ago·3 comments
81 pts
One robber baron’s gamble on railroads(smithsonianmag.com)
2y ago·102 comments