The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus
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Did Tintin Creator Hergé Collaborate with the Nazis? A Historical Investigation
The Adventures of Tintin may be a children’s comic series from mid-twentieth-century Europe, but its...
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose
Image via Wikimedia Commons Most everyone who knows the work of George Orwell knows his...
Why Do Filmmakers Call The Battle of Algiers the Greatest War Movie Ever?: Watch It Free Online
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the loose Thomas Pynchon adaptation One Battle After Another, serves...
The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)
Image via Wikimedia Commons With the old joke about every generation thinking they invented sex,...
The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
Mark Twain was, in the estimation of many, the United States of America’s first truly...
Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert
If you’ve seen a David Byrne concert in recent years, you know that he performs...
Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary
For young children today, just as it was for generations of their predecessors, nothing is...
An Immersive, ASMR-Style Look at Japanese Woodblock Printing
While not every Open Culture reader dreams of moving to Japan and becoming a woodblock...
How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking
As hard as it may be to believe, some of us have never seen a...