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How New York City's tabloids sensationalized the murder case that inspired the classic film noir Double Indemnity.

Leslie Jamison's The Recovering is self-aware about being the same old story, recalling the redemption narratives of Rousseau and St. Augustine.

What constitutes adulthood has never been self-evident or value-neutral. Queer lives follow their own temporal logic.

Little Orphan Annie is the latest in a sequence of pop culture foundlings, but America’s orphans of the Great Depression weren’t endearing at all.

Soda water is a popular beverage now, but it was once considered a cure, among other things.

Mourning clothes were a signal to the world that a family—really, that a woman had suffered a loss.

Ambergris, a waxy-like substance found in perfumes, has a unique origin.

So it entirely slipped my mind that Lingua Obscura recently turned one (yay!) and is now a veritable ...

Climate scientists tend to be optimistic and have faith that humanity can engineer our way out of the climate change we’ve created.