After reading Sarah Thornton’s revelatory Tits Up, you’ll never look at boobs the same way again.
After reading Sarah Thornton’s revelatory Tits Up, you’ll never look at boobs the same way again.
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After reading Sarah Thornton’s revelatory Tits Up, you’ll never look at boobs the same way again.
Celebrated feminist crossword creator Anna Shechtman explores the cultural history of the crossword puzzle in relation to her own life.
Aarathi Prasad’s entertaining and enlightening history of silk brims with story and scientific detail, revealing a surprising history well worth knowing.
Benjamin E. Park’s absorbing history of Mormonism, American Zion, effectively argues that the faith’s evolution mirrors the struggle of American society.
Marcia A. Zug’s You’ll Do is an illuminating and informative cultural history of marriage.
Amy Brady uses commentary from food writers, scientists and physicians to illuminate how something as commonplace as ice came to shape America’s history and culture.
This dramatic account of the rise of the American beef industry sheds new light on a mealtime mainstay.
Hugh Eakin’s rapturous storytelling makes Picasso’s War a spellbinding, page-turning read about the fight to bring Picasso’s work to America.
Journalist Tom Roston outlines the story behind Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, and the wartime trauma that inspired it.
People often think of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as a “swooning poetess,” but Fiona Sampson’s dazzling and absorbing biography is likely to change that.
Is Lolita a work of genius or unrepentant smut? A madman’s confession or justification for pedophilia? These essays wholly reassess this work’s legacy.
Michael Blanding’s deep dive into the world of Shakespearean scholarship is almost as much fun as sitting in a theater.
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