This month’s book picks include The Engagement, How the Word Is Passed and Drunk. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Amazon When Hawaiian broadcast engineer Genora Dancel fell in…
Joshua Hammer Contributing writer When Columba Stewart, a 63-year-old Benedictine monk based in Minnesota, arrived at the Kaiser Library, a government-affiliated archive in Kathmandu, Nepal, he stared up at the…
Iran’s Lake Urmia, once one of the largest saltwater lakes in the world, is vanishing due to climate change. Massimo Rumi/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Sci-fi is full of lasers…
Nili Blanck; Photographs by Kristin Bedford Correspondent Candy paint jobs with glimmering specks of metallics. Custom upholstery of magenta velvet. Bouncing hydraulics cruising low and slow. The names “Purple Rain”…
This drawing of a performance of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus has given scholars an understanding of how blackface was used in Elizabethan England. Collection at Longleat House (Marquess of Bath) When…
Every living generation has been petrified by The Wizard of Oz. Early in the 1939 film, a cranky neighbor riding her bicycle through a tornado suddenly transforms into a witch.…
Kayla Randall Digital Editor, Museums One hundred years ago, two men set out to summit Mount Everest. Neither of them returned. British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine tried to…
Edna Lewis gathers ingredients in the garden behind Ellerslie Plantation west of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1975. John T. Hill Some children are obsessed with soldiers, dinosaurs, princesses. Edna Lewis grew up…
By Perri Klass Photographs by Simona Ghizzoni The town of Collodi, Italy, about 45 miles west of Florence, is set on a slope behind a fabulous 17th-century villa. The garden,…
The President with the First Lady in a freight elevator heading to an inaugural ball in 2009. Pete Souza On Pete Souza’s Instagram, it’s almost as if Barack Obama is…
