literature 10,000 historical children's books free to explore in digital archive Ellsworth Toohey

book reviews Review: Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson Gareth Branwyn

art "An Evil Tree" lithograph: a 19th-century moral warning Popkin

podcasts Roswell revisited: aliens, artists and anarchy in New Mexico's UFO capital Popkin

History Joplin's hidden gem: a museum dedicated solely to cookie cutters Popkin

History "Frozen Charlotte" dolls provided cautionary tales to young women in the 19th century to prioritize health over fashion Jennifer Sandlin

david cronenberg Watch David Cronenberg's "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection" (2023), featuring four 18th-century life-size wax anatomical models Jennifer Sandlin

zines New '90s-era American Girl twins are opposites: one makes zines, the other Y2K lists Rusty Blazenhoff

books In LA this weekend? Come to the California International Antiquarian Book Fair Mark Frauenfelder

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

christmas A brief history of the war on Christmas Thom Dunn

ghosts There's a new museum dedicated entirely to ouija boards Thom Dunn

photography The most haunted images from the Boston Public Library's recently digitized photo archives Thom Dunn

exploding whale Exploding whale film gloriously restored in 4K Rob Beschizza

slavery The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing 40,000 anti-slavery documents from the 19th century Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

History Powerful Iwo Jima WWII footage shot by marines in combat and never seen publicly David Pescovitz

pizza Irish people have a very strange understanding of "pizza" Thom Dunn

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Séamus Bellamy

beardos "The Philosophy of Beards" from 1854 Clive Thompson