As of last week, the only thing I knew about Agnes Smedley was that The Feminist Press had reissued her…
The November #6degrees is freestyle. Instead of everyone starting in the same place with the same book, each participant starts…
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And the #1956Club is open for business and this time I'm joining and you can too.. I'm old enough to…
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Long before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, bookish teens had Iris Murdoch. As the poet Philip Larkin…
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A friend is reading Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science,…
There I was I was minding my own business drinking an early morning cuppa in isolation, socially distanced and hunkered…
So many parallels between our current pandemic and the plague that swept through London in 1665, at least as described…