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medieval history

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts

by Aaron Gilbreath May 4, 2020October 19, 2022

A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Margery Kempe: Patron Saint of Writing Moms

by Krista Stevens March 2, 2020October 19, 2022

“Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, History, Nonfiction, Story

Reading Lessons

by Irina Dumitrescu July 22, 2019October 19, 2022

You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Featured, History, Nonfiction

Reading Lessons

by Irina Dumitrescu July 22, 2019October 19, 2022

You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by Sara Fredman October 30, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Possessed: Dispatches from the Third Trimester

by Sara Fredman October 30, 2018October 19, 2022

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

Posted inNonfiction

Queens of Infamy: Joanna of Naples

by Anne Thériault July 3, 2018October 18, 2022

If you thought four (mostly) crappy husbands, vengeful Hungarian cousins, and the Black Death could cramp this queen’s style, think again.

Posted inNonfiction

Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine

by Anne Thériault April 4, 2018October 18, 2022

Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.

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