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For more than a century, people have traveled to Amherst to see where Emily Dickinson lived.

How a TV Show Brought New Fans (and Furniture) to Emily Dickinson's House

The poet’s home-turned-museum has embraced its pop-culture moment.

Elizabeth Minkel September 23, 2024

Fans often enjoy imagining how fictional characters would cook and eat.

How Sharing Recipes Brings Fans Together

Making fictional food can be both a creative and communal activity.

Elizabeth Minkel August 8, 2024

A huge crowd enjoying "base-ball" in May of 1886.

Before ‘Fans,’ There Were ‘Kranks,’ ‘Longhairs,’ and ‘Lions’

How do fandoms gain their names?

Elizabeth Minkel May 30, 2024

Butterfingers Binding's latest project is a collaboration between three or four makers, and a gift for a friend. It is mostly made form reclaimed materials.

The Emerging Art of 'Fanbinding'

Fanfiction enthusiasts are learning “1,000 hobbies in a trench coat” to make gorgeous physical artifacts of their passions.

Elizabeth Minkel March 1, 2024

HMS <em>Terror</em>, depicted here in an anonymous drawing, and HMS <em>Erebus</em> were locked in ice for over a year. All hands were lost.

'Terror Camp' Could Be a Glimpse of the Future of Fandom and Scholarship

“It’s academia that feels criminally fun!”

Elizabeth Minkel January 30, 2024

The Chinese television series <em>The Untamed</em> wasn't necessarily a common subject of fanfiction. The Yuletide fan exchange might have helped make it much more popular.

The Yuletide Fanfiction Exchange Is a Holiday Marvel

For two decades, fans have been waking up on Christmas morning to custom, obsession-feeding gifts from strangers.

Elizabeth Minkel December 19, 2023

<em>Comparison</em>, 1892, by British-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Sentiment Albums Hold the Seeds of Modern Fandom

These socially connected, multimedia 18th-century assemblages were more than the sum of their parts.

Elizabeth Minkel December 4, 2023