Stories by prismatic

Faces of Death: Ancient Burial Masks, from Egypt to Peru

The Domestic Labour of Reading in Milton’s Areopagitica

Gilgengart: The Tale of a Typeface (2013)

A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (1995)

Fear and Desire: On Stanley Kubrick’s first film

Digression 3: Corrosion – Rust Never Sleeps

“Stop Making Sense” and the Transformative Power of Collaboration

The collaborative spirit behind Brian Eno’s record sleeve designs (2022)

Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

The Works of Mars (1671)

‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review

From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in Popular Art Movements

Drawings of the Taj Mahal and Agra monument from the early 19th century

Loose lips save sunken ships

The Invention of a Neighborhood

The Skywayman

The sticky history of baklava

Hollywood’s Cold War Dissidents in Ireland

The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales

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