In early 19th-century France, Aglaé's father Michel Adanson dies of old age. Sitting at his bedside, she hears his last word—a name she doesn't know. While going through his ...
Read ReviewThe French East India Companies
In David Diop's novel Beyond the Door of No Return, French botanist Michel Adanson journeys across 18th-century Senegal to discover the fate of a woman who was kidnapped. At the time of the story,...
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We've all seen it—a dead animal carcass on the side of the road, clearly mowed down by a car. Many of us have been the ones responsible for such carnage, and we've come away from those ...
Read ReviewMonarch Butterfly Habitat Restoration on Roadsides and Beyond
As Ben Goldfarb notes in Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, we're in the midst of an insect apocalypse. It's largely agreed now that our planet is experiencing a ...
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When life became overwhelming for writer, wife, and mother Anna Funder in the summer of 2017, she turned to her favorite writer for clarity of vision. Reading George Orwell in the summer led to ...
Read ReviewThe Erasure of Eileen Blair from Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
Readers might be forgiven if, in reading George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, they miss the fact that his first wife, Eileen Blair, was in Spain with him, working for the Republican resistance against...
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In a recent article for The New Yorker, Zadie Smith joked that she moved away from London, her childhood home and the primary subject of her work, because she didn't want to write a historical novel. ...
Read ReviewWomen's Influence in the British Abolition Movement
In The Fraud, Eliza's lover Frances is a passionate abolitionist whose commitment to the cause infects Eliza with a similar sense of urgency. Britain's Slavery Abolition Act was passed in 1833, ...
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Globally, we generate more than 2 billion tons of household waste every year. That annual total includes more than 400 million tons of discarded plastic, more than 50 million tons of electronic waste ...
Read ReviewLet's say you have an empty shampoo bottle or yogurt container. Should it go in your recycling bin or the trash? Chances are you'll check for the familiar three-arrow recycling symbol before ...
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Born in Rome in 1593, Artemisia Gentileschi led a successful career as an artist throughout the early 17th century. In recent years, she has come to be regarded by many as one of the most influential ...
Read ReviewGentileschi's Masterpiece: Judith Slaying Holofernes
Judith Slaying Holofernes — also referred to as Judith Beheading Holofernes — is widely considered the masterpiece of Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1656), the ...
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Fair Rosaline
by Natasha Solomons
A subversive, powerful untelling of Romeo and Juliet by New York Times bestselling author Natasha Solomons.
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A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?
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