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How Mail Order Brought the Occult – The Public Domain Review
One of the best-known mail-order occult societies of the time, and one that still exists, was the Ancient Mystical Order…
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*The Fall of the House of Usher* (1928) – The Public Domain Review
It was the middle of the winter of 1926, in Rochester, New York, when James Sibley Watson Jr. and his…
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A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project — The Public Domain Review
I can imagine someone walking away thinking about all kinds of things: What have I learned about history by sifting…
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Review ‘Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord’: uneven but promising
Next month, the “Star Wars” franchise returns to theaters after an astonishing seven-year absence with Jon Favreau’s “The Mandalorian and…
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Season 2 review of ‘Your Friends & Neighbours’: drama sensations from Apple TV
The lifestyles of the rich and famous are discussed and depicted so often that it feels tasteless. These stories become…
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Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th Century Britain – The Public Domain Review
It is clear from the surviving testimonies of resurrection people that pauper cemeteries, without guards or mortuaries, were favorite hunting…
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Elizabeth I’s manuscript copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s *Histoires Prodigieuses* (1559) — The Public Domain Review
Beelzebub, Boaistuau claims, incarnated in two places on earth. First he ruled over the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where…
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The Glass Delusion and Its History – The Public Domain Review
Three centuries later, Foucault argued that Descartes had not only excluded the glass man from his rationality, but also employed…
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The 2026 Oscars review: tasteful and overly safe
In the best of all worlds, the Oscars are exciting: fun and exciting, moving and meaningful. At their very best,…
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‘Every Brilliant Thing’ Brodway review: Danel Radcliffe Shine
Discussions about mental health are finally becoming commonplace in society. Therapy and psychiatrists are no longer an anomaly in everyday…
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