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Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty

Biographers disagree over what kind of man Charles Dodgson really was.

Lewis Carroll's Shifting Reputation

Why has popular opinion of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland undergone such a dramatic reversal?

Using his own capital, Allen Lane started the Penguin publishing house. His plan was to sell quality books for the price of a pack of cigarettes.

How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature

Classic writers reached the masses when Penguin paperbacks began publishing great novels for the cost of a pack of cigarettes

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How Food Shaped Humanity

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates on "Going Home Again"

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"Fair" Use of our Cells

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What Children's Books Taught Us About Food

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Science Books for Kids

Andrew Lawler is currently a freelancer living in the woods of Maine.

Arthur Lubow on "Painted Dreams"

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Cooking With My Great-Grandmother

Artist Janice Lowry regarded the notebooks as “126 chapters of a memoir.” Her life’s journey, chronicled in her diaries, ended Sept. 20, 2009, when she succumbed to liver cancer.

Drawn From Life

Artist Janice Lowry's illustrated diaries record her history—and ours

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians.

Historical Laughter

Those who don't have power tend to make fun of those who do. But what happens when the power shifts?

Smithsonian Institution Building, "The Castle"

Dan Brown’s Smithsonian: Fact or Fiction?

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Frank Bruni on Being "Born Round"

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The Flap Over Foie Gras

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The Curse of the Labrador Duck

Following the Brontë Trail across the moors, the Wayfarers group walked between eight and 10 miles a day in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

The Full Brontë

The British countryside is home to the real sites behind Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and other works by the literary sisters

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The Other Black Gold

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Death from the Skies!

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Beach Reading for Food Nerds

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