Afternoon Tea (5/15/19)

Argentina’s Economic Misery Could Bring Populism Back to the Country

How Casey Cep Wrote the True-Crime Book Harper Lee Couldn’t

In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners

This is such a tough aspect of apartment living: Listening to My Neighbors Fight (...I just realized I have two Maris Kreizman pieces linked in this post but I DON'T CARE, Maris is great.)

Discovering Cheese and Tradition in the Swedish North

Afternoon Tea (1/3/19)

Two Roads for the New French Right

How A Little Science And A Lot Of Shady Advertising Boosted Yeast's Popularity

Thomas Merton, the Monk Who Became a Prophet

The Best Thrillers Of 2018, According To One Of The Best Crime Writers

Two Distinguished Women and a Seasonal Greetings Card Mystery

Afternoon Tea (12/11/18)

At 70 Years Old, Raffi Is Singing New Songs and Fighting New Fascists

A Former Plantation Begins To Tell A Fuller Story Of Slavery In America

The 10 Best Crime Books of 2018

Gmail Smart Replies and the Ever-Growing Pressure to E-mail Like a Machine

Edith Thompson: The Innocent Woman Who Was Executed in Part Because of Her Writing Talent

Afternoon Tea (9/13/18)

Meet the Jewish Crime Writer Who Uncovered the True Story of Lolita

The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell

Beauty or Beast? Iceland Quarrels Over an Invasive Plant

My Queer Chinese Comrades, in My Mother Tongue

Charles Minard’s Classic Infographic Shows the True Human Cost of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia

Afternoon Tea (8/7/18)

What a story: Overlooked No More: Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe

The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime

Incels’ Obsession With Looks Is Based on Fake Math

Whoa: Dell Mapbacks: A History: The Art of the Back Cover Murder Mystery

The Cheese Man of Aran

Afternoon Tea (8/6/18)

A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender

When Crime Comes for the Crime Writer

Why the era of Peak TV is the era of the disappointing second season

The Titanic Wreck Is a Landmark Almost No One Can See

Interesting: My New Obsession: Alternate Universe Filipino Romance Novels

Afternoon Tea (8/3/18)

White threat in a browning America: How demographic change is fracturing our politics.

Amen: No, you probably don’t have a book in you

Ceramics Aren’t Enough. Bring on the Spaceships, Italian Town Says.

What Do Forensic Scientists Think of the True-Crime Boom?

War Horses Gone Astray

Afternoon Tea (8/22/17)

This is important: Constant Anxiety Won't Save the World

Ugh, he's so awful: Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country

Snakes or scrolls? 11th-century wall paintings in Norfolk

Interesting: Why You Can’t Trust Yourself to Match Photos of Strangers’ Faces

True Crime Gets Pretty

Afternoon Tea (7/27/17)

This look at a true crime convention is fascinating: DNA or It Didn’t Happen

Back from the Front: Tracking down WW1 grave markers

The 19th-Century Lithuanians Who Smuggled Books to Save Their Language

The Lady Anatomist Who Brought Dead Bodies to Light

The Fiercely Precise World of Competitive Table-Setting