During World War II, GIs battled boredom with novels provided by the Armed Service Division, raising questions about the “feminizing” effect of reading.

Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, two writers in search of sexual and literary inspiration, modeled their most seductive characters on June Mansfield Miller.

A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.

“The Courtier’s Library” is a list of books every courtier should know about, a cheat sheet for name-dropping in society. The trouble? Its books are imaginary.

Allegedly, the noblewomen of Poitiers solved the problems of love, lost and found. But was the court real, or was it just the fanciful invention of historians?

Well-researched stories from Wired, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Seeking buried treasure has long been an American pastime, but its the failure to find the gold that keeps the hunt—and the story—alive.

The big story for cigarettes in the twentieth century was their journey from popularity to pariah.

The video platform faced myriad challenges in combating disinformation, made more acute by a reliance on automated tools for content review and moderation.

Harmony between human and canine shouldn’t be difficult to find, but poorly defined policies and breed uncertainties makes mutts vulnerable to public biases.