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The Art of Living and Dying With Cancer: In Conversation With Dr. Robert Schneider Toward the end of her life, artist Beatriz da Costa and her oncologist forged an unexpected partnership, exploring the fragile intersection of art, science, and mortality.

By Daniela Lieja Quintanar & Ana Briz

The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.

By Michael Erard

The Most Mournful Rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Ever Performed Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities.

By Kimberly Juanita Brown

On Queuing: The Cognitive Logic Behind Lines The seemingly simple act of waiting in line is guided by unwritten rules and visual signals that shape how we navigate social space.

By Roberto Casati

Game Histories

The Game Histories series focuses on outlining a critical historical study of games by commissioning works from scholars and professionals whose interests in game history are astute and serious, theoretically multidisciplinary, exhibit acute attention to historiography and historical methodologies, and whose wide-ranging subject matter is exhaustively researched.

Series editor: Henry Lowood and Raiford Guins

Playing at the World, 2E: Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson is filled with unparalleled archival research from obscure fanzines to letters, drafts, and other ephemera. The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, this is the ultimate geek’s guide to the original RPG.

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