
Our Trojan Moment
Pat Barker’s trilogy-in-progress is the most recent attempt to give a powerful voice to Homer’s silenced women.
The Women of Troy
by Pat Barker
December 2, 2021 issue
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Our Trojan Moment
Pat Barker’s trilogy-in-progress is the most recent attempt to give a powerful voice to Homer’s silenced women.
The Women of Troy
by Pat Barker
December 2, 2021 issue
Promethean Women
Both Mary Wollstonecraft, darling of twentieth-century feminists, and her visionary daughter Mary Shelley continue to influence us today.
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
by Sylvana Tomaselli
Artificial Life After Frankenstein
by Eileen Hunt Botting
Frankenstein: The 1818 Edition with Related Texts
by Mary Shelley, edited and with an introduction and notes by David Wootton
February 25, 2021 issue
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Selected Writings
by Alexander von Humboldt, edited and with an introduction by Andrea Wulf
Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
by Maren Meinhardt
Humboldt’s Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller
by Myron Echenberg
December 5, 2019 issue
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