All articles from MIT Press Reader

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.

Curiosity Is No Solo Act

It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making.

‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

A new spin on an old genre replaces flesh-and-blood monsters with the mundanity of modern bureaucracy.