Articles by Elizabeth Minkel

Some of these books were lost and never found; others were never even written.

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

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

How do fandoms gain their names?

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

“It’s academia that feels criminally fun!”

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

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