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Nails by Ray Bradbury, and Other News
Photo via Jezebel/Imgur Discovered in Harvard’s library: three books bound in human flesh. (“One book deals with medieval law, another Roman poetry and the other French philosophy.”) One of the...
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Elizabethan Warts and All, and Other News
Detail from “Treatment for lachrimal fistula performed on a nun,” an illustration from a seventeenth-century surgical guide. Via Wellcome Library. A report by British dermatologists makes the audacious...
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Morbid Sensitivity
Saul Bass’s poster design for Bonjour Tristesse, 1958. And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?—Doctor Zhivago I’ve always liked the term morbid...
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A Mosh Pit of One’s Own
Fea. Photo courtesy of Blackheart. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf writes in 1929. The same applies to being a musician, in that Woolf really...
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