Stories by benbreen

Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss – Melancholy Anthropology

When Was the Age of Information?

In 1975, a Kodak employee invented a digital camera

Making Sense of Misery: The Dialect Notebooks of a Teenage Breton Farm Servant

Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized

Drawings of Apache Life, Made by a Prisoner of War in the Late 19th Century

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

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