Stories by pepys

The Devil's Party: On Milton's Lucifer

How does Hammacher Schlemmer survive in the age of Amazon?

The Healing Buzz of “Drunk History”

How Australia’s Banks Became the World’s Biggest Property Addicts

The Odd Literary Paraphernalia of the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection

From Hospital Gowns to Couture: The Unlikely Origins of '60s Disposable Dresses

Will an 18th-Century Giant Finally Get a Burial at Sea?

The Dancing Plague of 1518

Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518

Killer Queens: When women ran the empire–and their history was preserved by men

Gobblebook: On Lord Byron and Ada Lovelace

Which New York City Borough Would Win an All-Out Civil War?

Suffering, not just happiness, weighs in the utilitarian calculus

In Memory of Isaiah Berlin

The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print

The second-worst poet in English

Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus, and Other Vienna-Hating Viennese

Design for plenty: a rich history of social, economic and agricultural ventures

Tom Wolfe, the Art of Fiction No. 123 (1991)

Sovereign Urban Intellectual: How Diogenes Laertius Influenced Renaissance Italy

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