Folk Culture

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful...

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When the South Korean drama Squid Game hit Netflix in 2021, the show became a bona fide cultural phenomenon. The...

“Silent Night” is one of the most popular Christmas hymns, often sung in churches lit only by candles. The song...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Olmsted, S. Carniani, JADES CollaborationDay 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the most...

The gift of Bob Dylan’s music is to make the world seem weirder, or rather to reveal the world to...

Cinematic history has long been lousy with Draculas: Dozens of remakes, sequels, and spin-offs of Bram Stoker’s seminal gothic novel...

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