Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

Laura Spinney

With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale...

The Suicide House

Charlie Donlea

'On the other side of that wall are the woods, and in those woods is a forgotten path that leads to the infamous boarding house.' Beyond the manicured campus of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory School sits an abandoned boarding house, popular among students as a late-night hangout - and recently the...

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf

I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...