From the April 2015 Issue The Order of the Good Death Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematorium By Caitlin Doughty LR
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From the August 2004 Issue Heart And Seoul The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy By Margaret Drabble LR
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From the February 2015 Issue Rolling in It Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight against Filth By Lee Jackson LR
From the August 2006 Issue Only in South America Ghost Train through the Andes: On My Grandfather’s Trail in Chile and Bolivia By Michael Jacobs LR
From the June 2011 Issue Plebs on Parade Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators and Others By Robert C Knapp LR
From the February 2011 Issue Seek and Ye Shall Find Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad By Francesca Beauman LR
From the September 2010 Issue The Drunken Member City of Sin: London and Its Vices By Catharine Arnold LR
From the December 2008 Issue Hedonists Handbook Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure By Paul Martin LR
From the August 2014 Issue Laugh? I Nearly Died Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling and Cracking Up By Mary Beard LR
From the September 2008 Issue Shit Happens The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste By Rose George LR
From the April 2007 Issue Offal & Ordure Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770 By Emily Cockayne LR
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