Colin Marshall

Zoe Williams profiled Ryan Holiday, a one-time public-relations whiz-kid who's reinvented himself over the past decade as a speaker for the dead: specifically Epictetus, Seneca, and above all Marcus Aurelius, the figureheads of the ancient school of philosophy we now know as Stoicism.

In one of his forced journeys into the past, he falls for a strangely familiar-looking woman who convinces him not to return to his own time period. Alas, things go wrong, culminating in the final realization that the death he had witnessed so long ago was, in fact, his own.

When the names of French poet Paul Éluard and German artist Max Ernst arise, one subject always follows: that of their years-long ménage à trois — or rather, 'marriage à trois,' as a New York Times article by Annette Grant once put it.

Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg's novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

The term gaslight has gained so much traction in popular discourse so recently that you'd swear it was coined around 2010.

Highland Green Ford Mustang, 'the first major pony car, a more compact, sporty take on the muscle car.'httpv://www.youtube/watch?v=FJZ-BHBKyosBullitt could change the game, as they say, thanks not just to the cars but also the cameras available at the time, not least the Arriflex 35 II.

F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, far and away the most influential early vampire movie, came out 102 years ago. For about ten of those years, Robert Eggers has been trying to remake it. He wouldn't be the first:

Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship's name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice off Antarctica.

Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet. 'Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned mini castles — 587 of them to be exact,' write Architectural Digest's Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica Cherner.

More than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or less accurate cultural memory of the Victorians themselves: of their social mores, their aesthetic sensibilities, their ambitions great and small, their many and varied hang-ups.