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In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.
You become the main protagonist in these novels.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
His greatest speeches were loaded with empathy.
Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
Monsters have always represented societal fears, but narrative art also casts doubt on whether we fully understand our monsters — and their slayers.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
What is Captain America doing in ancient Mesopotamia?
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
John Templeton Foundation
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
Million Stories
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing "race suicide."
Quite a lot, actually, even though it has no identifiable value as a scientific concept.
A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
Time for a status check before watching "Moon Knight."
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
John Templeton Foundation
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
Can stories help us become more creative?
A famous explorer's doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.