Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. A stone building with blue trim, once used as a laboratory, now holds much of the ...

As a long time progressive, I am very alarmed to see low income Americans flock to the reactionary Tea Party and Patriot movement and the ultra conservative candidates they support. Especially after ...

When Wilhelm Reich died in prison in 1957, he was a scientist disgraced. Remembered, if at all, as the inventor of the orgone accumulator (William S. Burroughs and William Steig, among others, were ...

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human ...

The Lonely City author explores Wilhelm Reich’s insights into the physical impact of emotional pain in a deft book of many parts The compelling tale that Olivia Laing, acclaimed author of The Trip to ...

Mary Boyd Higgins, the product of a privileged youth in Indianapolis, was living comfortably in New York in the 1950s when she volunteered to manage the trust of Wilhelm Reich, a highly controversial ...

Ilse Ollendorff Reich has just published a book on the life of her husband, Wilhelm Reich.1 I will review the book shortly before discussing the theme of this essay, the influence of Reich’s work on ...

A true story of Wilhelm Reich, a pioneer prosecuted and imprisoned. His books and publications were banned and burned in America, where he dies in a federal penitentiary. Now 60 years after his death ...

Austrian-born Wilhelm Reich became one of Sigmund Freud's most brilliant disciples, only to die in a United States prison at age 60. It has been more than fifty years since his death, but it is ...

Selma James on Wilhelm Reich, women, sexuality and wages for housework. From Falling Wall Book Review #3/4 (1975). Review: What Is Class Consciousness? by Wilhelm Reich A critical review of Wilhelm ...