Stories by benbreen

Orson Welles’s Unfinished Masterpiece

Practice vs. Theory: The British Electrical Debate, 1888-1891

Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business

Scanning a Ballast Stone from the Emanuel Point II Shipwreck

A Mongolian Manual of Astrology and Divination

“Flower of Battle,” a combat manual created in the first decade of the 1400s

The Disremembered

Prison Palimpsest: A Former Tour Guide Looks Back at Eastern State Pen (2014)

The Old Consciousness: on historical fiction

Sartre and Borges on Orson Welles

The Art of Fiction No. 203: Interview with Ray Bradbury

Vanitas Machine: The transience and extension of life

Madness and Meaning: Depictions of insanity through history

The Value of News

Version Control; Or, What Does It Mean to “Publish” a Scholarly Article?

The 26 martyrs of Nagasaki: Christian persecution in early modern Japan

The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education'

Liquid mercury found under Mexican pyramid could lead to king's tomb

Thoughts Can Fuel Some Deadly Brain Cancers

Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71 demolish caricatures of his thought (2013)

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