The Public Domain Review

In these images, Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods.

A collection of more than 60 sundial inscriptions, exploring various themes relating to the passing of time.

From cabbage green to coarse meal, medieval manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and consistencies when describing urine. Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy: how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body's liquid excretions.

In this “personal guidance” film, Phil the shy guy learns a valuable lesson: to fit in, you need to “think about the other guy”.

In these illustrations, Emerson's words are interpreted literally, repurposed for cheeky, teasing, and toothless ends.

A sprawling eighty-page poem about teeth, written by an eminent dentist, with fifty pages of erudite endnotes.

These watercolour images depict a lost 19th-century Manhattan of grand country estates and vast private gardens.

Beneath the waves, off the Suffolk Coast, lies a city taken by the sea through centuries of erosion. Matthew Green revisits Dunwich, a once lively port transfigured into a symbol of loss, both eerie and profound, for generations of artists, poets, and historians drawn to its ruinous shores.

This form of folk art from 17th- and 18th-century Pennsylvania was designed for private, domestic pleasures.

In this essay on the ailments of sedentary lifestyles, reading and scholarly study have tragic and sometimes fatal consequences.