As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany, Joe Dunthorne’s grandmother was among the many who brushed their teeth with irradiated toothpaste. Doramad, his grandmother’s family brand of ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the Welsh novelist Joe Dunthorne began reading his German-Jewish great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher’s memoir, he ...

Saginaw dentist Dr. Val Kolpakov may have the world’s most unusual collection of toothpastes. Some are whiskey-flavored, some taste like curry and others like bamboo. One dates to World War II and is ...

A dentist from Georgia owns the world's largest toothpaste collection, including tubes from all over the globe and featuring quirky flavours from wasabi to whisky. He estimates the value of his ...

If you were a strapping gent looking to improve your virility in the early 20th century, one such option would be the radium suppository. Nothing says “lothario” quite like shoving a radioactive ...

When the Welsh novelist Joe Dunthorne began reading his German-Jewish great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher’s memoir, he had been hoping to discover the story of his late grandmother’s (Siegfried’s ...