The Soviet Union's Plant Institute, Joan Didion, and More
The Institute stored seeds to safeguard against famine. Then a famine struck...
The Soviet Union's Plant Institute stored seeds to safeguard against famine. Amid a famine in Leningrad, did scientists eat the seeds to save themselves?... more »
“Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?” Joan Didion infuriated Eve Babitz... more »
We live in the age of the internet novel, with its dispassionate, deadening style and …