On Mary Wollstonecraft April 05, 2023
Around the time I realized I didn’t want to be married anymore, I started visiting Mary Wollstonecraft’s grave. I’d known it was there, behind King’s Cross railway station, for at least a decade. I had read her protofeminist tract from 1792, A Vindic...
The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley July 26, 2022
Asummer storm in the Ligurian Sea can blow up out of nowhere. The Shelleys moved to the Bay of Lerici, halfway between Pisa and Genoa, at the end of April 1822. The place they rented, Casa Magni, was a former boathouse between the fishing village of...
Last Days of Percy Bysshe Shelley July 08, 2022
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it. Percy Bysshe Shelley, clothed in black, lies on the branches of the funeral pyre; his pale face might be sleeping, his hair is swept back, his hand has fallen to his side. He still has on his lea...
Frankenstein, the Original Lab Leak November 12, 2021
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/frankenstein-the-original-lab-leak/?utm_source=pocket_mylist...