#SundayReads— “The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires”, in which Paulina L. Alberto searches for the life behind the legend of Raúl Grigera, a mysterious staple of Buenos Aires nightlife in the 1910s and 20s: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/raul-grigera-black-dandy-of-buenos-aires

#SundayReads: Jessica Riskin on the history of talking machines, from their origins in musical automata to inventors’ quixotic attempts to make androids pronounce words, converse, and declare their love: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech

#SundayReads: “Imagining an Idle Countess” in which Matthew Mullane revisits George Wightwick’s Romantic architectural world history The Palace of Architecture (1840) — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/imagining-an-idle-countess/

#SundayReads: @RihnAndrew on the racial rhetoric in Jack London’s coverage of the the Fight of the Century, between Jim Jeffries (the “Great White Hope”) and Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jack-london-jack-johnson-and-the-fight-of-the-century/

#SundayReads: @drmatthewgreen revisits the lost city of Dunwich, a once lively port that was taken by the sea: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-city-that-fell-off-a-cliff

#SundayReads — Katherine Harvey investigates the story of Old Tom Parr (died 1635), who claimed to have lived to 152, and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-old-old-very-old-man/

#SundayReads: Beginning with a 14th-century king who believed he was made entirely of glass, Tamara Sanderson investigates the “glass delusion” — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility-the-glass-delusion-and-its-history/ #longreads

#SundayReads: “As Bright as a Feather”, in which Whitney Rakich examines the far-reaching ostrich industry through a peculiar do-it-yourself-style book: Alexander Paul’s The Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer (1888) — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/bright-as-a-feather/

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#SundayReads: Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti search for the origins of a pair of lurid “translations” from 1927 marketed as authentic tales by Giovanni Boccaccio: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pseudo-boccaccio-yiddish-pulp-fiction-and-the-man-who-ripped-off-joyce