Stories by prismatic

The (Other) French Chef

Not just a fence: The story of a stainless steel status symbol

Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex

In Algeria, ancient cave art may show psychedelic mushroom use

Haribo Goldbears, the world’s first gummy bears

Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1859–1915)

Rather Break Than Bend

The Last Cigarette: Cinema’s most seductive prop

A Design History of Childhood (2013)

‘What the Ermine Saw’ Review: A da Vinci Painting’s Journey

Nil by Page

The Soviet Union’s Desperate Efforts at Mind Control

The Stream of Time (1803–58)

The jewel-encrusted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“The Rainbow for Their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)

What Does This 17th-Century Painting Smell Like?

A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (Ca. 1749)

Silver Screen Sphinxes: Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, and Celebrity Privacy

Pablo Picasso in Love and War

Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)

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