Archive
Film Stories
Where literature and movies meet.
A Sense of Place
Stories about the meaning of home.
Homemaking
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Moving into the perfect house—and sharing it with the memories of the family who lived there before.
A House of One’s Own
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Virginia Woolf was Bloomsbury’s genius, but her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, created its shrine.
The Ghost of the Glass House
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Pierre Chareau’s modernist Glass House, in nineteen-thirties Paris—and the dreams that still haunt it.
Picks from the Archive
Silent Spring—II
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Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.
Silent Spring—III
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Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking investigation into the harmful effects of DDT and other pesticides on the environment.