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10 Award-Winning Optical Illusions and Brain Puzzles
Yes, your mind really is playing tricks on you. Check out these optical illusions and brain puzzles to learn how and why.
10 Award-Winning Optical Illusions and Brain Puzzles
Yes, your mind really is playing tricks on you. Check out these optical illusions and brain puzzles to learn how and why.
As Big as a What? How Literary Size Comparisons Change Over Time
Authors have stopped turning to the natural world for size comparisons and started referring to sports.
9 Things You Might Not Know About Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace
1. It's one of three Atwood adaptations hitting the small screen this year.
13 Secrets of Rare Book Dealers
They don't wear white gloves, and they're not sorry.
25 Spooky Books to Read This Halloween Season
Warning: You may want to keep the lights on.
LeVar Burton Is Legally Allowed to Say His Reading Rainbow Catchphrase
The former host is no longer being sued by the network he used to work with.
The Charming English Fishing Village That Inspired Dracula
How a seaside vacation in 1890 gave rise to Bram Stoker's terrifying tale.
P.G. Wodehouse's Exile from England
Accused by his countrymen of collaborating with the Nazis, the once-beloved British author fled in 1947 and never looked back.
The Internet Archive is Making 62 Obscure, Out-of-Print Books Available Online
The works are in the public domain because of a rarely used provision of U.S. copyright law.
How a Makeshift Bicycle Saved Curious George From the Nazis
The real-life tale of how the beloved children's book character came to be rivals any movie.
7 Facts About William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Since its release in 1930, 'As I Lay Dying' has become regarded as an American classic—and a bit of an endurance test for some readers.
10 Things We Learned From Vanilla Ice's 1991 Autobiography, Ice by Ice
Attention ladies: The Iceman is willing to spring for a fancy dinner, but not at one of those places "where the menu is so fancy I don't know what I'm ordering."
15 Children's Books No One Reads Now
These 15 books were the <em>Harry Potter</em>s of their time.
5 Self-Portraits Famous Authors Doodled in Their Own Books
Kurt Vonnegut, in particular, loved to give fans a little extra artistic flourish with his signature.
12 of the Most Beautiful Cemeteries Around the World
Falling leaves, stunning statuary, and famous graves—here are a dozen picturesque international spots to rest in peace.
10 Everyday Phrases Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Made Popular
Curiouser and curiouser.
7 Things You Might Not Know About Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel was met with a poor critical reception. Decades later, critics finally understood what Hurston had accomplished.
6 Peak Sneak-Peek Paintings from the New Bob Ross Art Book
More than 300 of the public television celebrity's signature landscape paintings have been collected into a coffee table book.
11 Popular Quotes Commonly Misattributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Write drunk, edit sober” may sound like a sage piece of advice, but it didn't come from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
10 Terrific Facts About Stephen King
In addition to being one of the world's most successful and prolific writers, Stephen King is also the toast of Hollywood with a seemingly never-ending stream of adaptations being made of his work.
How the Rise of Paperback Books Turned To Kill a Mockingbird Into a Literary Classic
If you read Harper Lee's novel in school, it wasn't entirely because of the book's stellar literary value (though it has that, too).
6 Great (and Not-So-Great) Works of Art Made by Robots
Roboticists are working hard to engineer the next Picasso.