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Berlin, 1918. You can feel the “terrible divisions today,” Kollwitz notes in her diary. There are daily mass protests, demonstrations and violence in Berlin. Even those...

What makes precision a feature of the modern world is the transition from craftsmanship to mass production. The genius of machine tools—as opposed to mere machines—lies...

Photos from the Masquerade of the Red Death, Brooklyn’s spookiest literary party After darkness fell on October 25th, New York’s most distinguished literati donned red and black...

On the back cover of Hanne Ørstavik’s novel Love is a one-line quotation attributed to a significantly more famous Norwegian writer. According to Karl Ove Knausgaard,...

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When we lose physical media, we lose our connection to the past Photo by Autopilot The glue used to bind LaserDiscs is breaking down. Years of improper...

Celebrating the literary legacy of 7 authors who passed away before the publication of their work Photo by Anton Darius | @theSollers on Unsplash Time is the inevitable...

The List List is sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive. Meet Libby. The award-winning reading app that makes sure you always have...

It’s been more than 10 years since the world of YA fiction fell deep for the world of vampires. We saw not only the mega-selling, door-opening Twilight series,...

Who doesn’t love a good podcast? I know I am always looking for the next great podcast. My personal favorite is Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, but...