Stories by benbreen

Walter Pater's Renaissance

Catalogs, Colophons, and Curses from the Rāmamālā Library in Bangladesh

Machiavelli, Comedian

The Virtues of Difficult Fiction

Three Wise Men in a Bed: Bedsharing and Sexuality in Medieval Europe (2014)

Photostats, or, the more things change, the more they stay the same

The Future of American History

Jamestown excavation unearths four bodies and a mystery in a small box

Early telegraph routes were strikingly similar to today’s Internet pathways

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape (2010)

Searching for Jagari: The “Mick Jagger of Zambia” (2014)

The Corpse Exchange

Almost Lovable: on Stalinist architecture

Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

Phaistos Disc

Are professional ethicists good people? According to research, not especially

NLM Digitizes Unique Early English Books, Allowing Free Online Access

E. L. Doctorow, the Art of Fiction No. 94 (1986)

Tolkien and the Fairy Story (1963)

Peer review: not as old as you might think

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