Hidden Women Of History: 19Th-Century Author Augusta Drane Was An Intellectual 'Warrior Nun'. Was She Queer?
Augusta Theodosia Drane, a 19th-century English religious leader , published works including poetry, histories, essays and ...
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This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library
It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan's ...
Ladies in read: A dramatic new collection of sacred poetry by women
Anger, humour and irreverence mark the poems in the new anthology, Wild Women. Writers include a former courtesan, a ...
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The Crisis in the Care Economy
More recently, these establishments have also sent care labor back into the private home: Agency-hired health aides, cleaners ...
A Classic Russian Novel Is Ushering American Ballet Theatre Into a New Era
“I like to create roller-coasters in the ballet world, where the audience is really on the edge of their seat,” says ...
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Hearn: Japan's Irish genius
At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is ...
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City landmarks Village rowhouse with deep ties to Black history and theater
The Greenwich Village rowhouse housed one of NYC's most successful 19th-century African American businessmen and one of its first Off-Off-Broadway theaters.
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Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts welcomes new scholars
A commitment to the liberal arts is at the core of Princeton University's mission. Meet this year's cohort of outstanding ...
Navalny's memoir details isolation and suffering in a Russian prison — and how he never lost hope
The final 200 pages of Navalny's 479-page book do, in some ways, have the characteristics of other prison diaries or of such classic Russian literature as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ...
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Episode 12
Price’s total output comes to more than 300 pieces, 40 of them large-scale works, plus 100 or so songs, chamber works and settings of spirituals for piano and voice. But long before her death in 1953, ...
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Their grandmothers’ notes became a Mexican Jewish cookbook
Plus: Columnist Alix Wall also looks at "The Mac & Cheese Millionaire," the new book by Oakland chef Erin Wade.
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Ladies in read: Inside a dramatic new collection of sacred poetry by women
goad me to read the Kalma, the Purana. That’s from a devotional poem by Peero, a courtesan who fled the kothis of ...