Our Opinions Are Correct Episode 184: Spooky Season Books and Hellbenders
It's time to light a fire and curl up with a cup of cocoa and a terrifying book full of creepy shit -- or escaping from creepy shit. We've got…
Dance Dance Revolution
Bookforum talks with Emily Witt about dancing, drugs, and breakdown
Noble Blood: Sentencing His Son to Death
When Peter the Great's son and heir was on trial for treason, the emperor instructed the jury to treat him as they would any other man. If he were to…
Our Opinions Are Correct: Three Ways of Looking at Bruce Lee (with Jeff Chang)
Bruce Lee changed American pop culture forever, and his incredible legacy is more relevant than ever. But how did he go from child actor in Hong Kong to one of…
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Mr. Baker discussed his book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, published by Random House. He explained that the term "double fold" describes a method used by librarians…
The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans
Texas Excess
Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology
Cuir, moustaches, muscles
Bienvenue dans l’univers sulfureux de Tom of Finland.
When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America.
109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.
The Halo Effect: Why It’s So Difficult To Understand The Past
This week on Hidden Brain, the tale of the infamous Ford Pinto and the former Ford insider who voted twice to keep the car on the road. We explore what…