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The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus

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It would be impossible to understand Western civilization without understanding the history...

Did Tintin Creator Hergé Collaborate with the Nazis? A Historical Investigation

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The Adventures of Tintin may be a children’s comic series from mid-twentieth-century...

George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose

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Image via Wikimedia Commons Most everyone who knows the work of George...

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the loose Thomas Pynchon adaptation One Battle...

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)

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Image via Wikimedia Commons With the old joke about every generation thinking...

The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla

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Mark Twain was, in the estimation of many, the United States of...

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If you’ve seen a David Byrne concert in recent years, you know...

Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary

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For young children today, just as it was for generations of their...

An Immersive, ASMR-Style Look at Japanese Woodblock Printing

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While not every Open Culture reader dreams of moving to Japan and...

How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking

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As hard as it may be to believe, some of us have...

The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic

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Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition...

What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?

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Practically anyone could take one glance at Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and identify...