Angelica Frey

Angelica Frey is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, who always tries to write about the highbrow in the lowbrow and vice versa.

King Arthur's knights, gathered at the Round Table to celebrate Pentecost, see a vision of the Holy Grail.

Arts & Culture

T. S. Eliot and the Holy Grail

The Nobel Laureate drew on a centuries-old legend when he put the Fisher King in The Waste Land.

Soap Bubbles by Jean Simeon Chardin, ca.1733

Art & Art History

The Soap Bubble Trope

Throughout the history of philosophy, literature, art, and science, people have been fascinated with the shimmering surfaces of soap bubbles.

A classical statute in a strawberry sequined dress

Politics & History

Cottagecore Debuted 2,300 Years Ago

Keeping cozy in a countryside escape, through the ages.

Editors' Picks

Arts & Culture

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

In 1971, two legends of Black letters discussed Black manhood, white racism, the role of the writer, and the responsibility to teach.

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Science & Technology

The Anatomists of Ancient Alexandria

Cultural forces under the Ptolemaic dynasty briefly allowed scholars like Herophilus to practice dissection—and possibly vivisection—on human subjects.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Politics & History

Wilhelm Reich: Twice Burned

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the Nazis only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.

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