Stories by Thevet

Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive

Airports make the indignities inherent to air travel cohere with its fantasies

Those Brogues

Plotting the Geocoordinates You May Have Accidentally Left Behind in Photos

6,000-year-old fabric reveals Peruvians were dyeing with indigo before Egyptians

Ruffled Feathers

Rare Beasts, Birds, and the Calaboose: A Brief History of London’s Tower Menagerie

The Trouble with Sombreros

On Air Travel: Pat-Downs, Pissing, and Passport Stamps

The Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe

How to Write While Traveling

A lost study of Buddhist art reveals a hidden side of a great literary critic

Napoleon Bonaparte, failed novelist: manuscript goes to auction

400 Years of Equator Hazings: Surviving the Wrath of King Neptune's Court

The Odd Hybrid Businesses That Defined the Early American Service Sector

The many lives of John le Carré, in his own words

Blast Canada: Manifesto Writing in the True North

The 9,000-Mile Sea Journey of an Irradiated Indian Mango

Giant ‘Arrows’ Seen From Space Point to a Vanished World

Antoine’s, the oldest US restaurant owned by a single family

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