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Before the Tempest Hurl’d

Before the Tempest Hurl’d

“it’s a’ as it is”

“it’s a’ as it is”

“Contrary” Sexual Instincts

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“Contrary” Sexual Instincts

Talia Schaffer: Romantic Marriage

Talia Schaffer: Romantic Marriage

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As Women

‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ by Mary Wollstonecraft

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‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ by Mary Wollstonecraft

Pankaj Mishra on Imperialism

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Pankaj Mishra on Imperialism

Borges in Cambridge

Borges in Cambridge

Might not the psyche of writer and reader mesh powerfully in quarrel?

Might not the psyche of writer and reader mesh powerfully in quarrel?

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Room 26

After the sewing machine, the fan, the toaster, and the teakettle, the vibrator was the next domestic appliance to be electrified…

After the sewing machine, the fan, the toaster, and the teakettle, the vibrator was the next domestic appliance to be electrified…

Burke’s Wardrobe by William F. Byrne

Burke’s Wardrobe by William F. Byrne

Poisonings, bludgeonings, suffocations

Present Perfect

Present Perfect

‘If an Englishman can believe in fairies, how the hell can you tell him apart from the savages? The whole system comes crashing down!’

Arsenic – homicidal agent of choice for the domestic villains of Victorian Britain

(Read ‘The Law and the Lady’ by Wilkie Collins)

Mosher’s sex survey

‘Cultural commentators who sideline video games aren’t doing their job and have no more reason on their side than the Victorian mamas who declared that novel-reading led to sexual incontinence and to vitiation of the brain.’

‘Cultural commentators who sideline video games aren’t doing their job and have no more reason on their side than the Victorian mamas who declared that novel-reading led to sexual incontinence and to vitiation of the brain.’