Genevieve Valentine
Stories
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Arts & Life
Centuries Of Debutantes Dish About Being Put On Display In 'The Season'
Kristen Richardson traces the history of the practice, with firsthand accounts from diaries and letters, finding political strife, social upheaval and machinations to keep out so-called undesirables.
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Environment
'On The Backs Of Tortoises' Challenges Us To Consider How Much Of Life Is Intertwined
Nominally an environmental and social history of the Galápagos Islands, it lays bare the entangled issues confronting us as we attempt conservation efforts while facing a sweeping ecological crisis.
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Arts & Life
'Mary Queen Of Scots' Is A Case Study On How Political, Human Narratives Get Crafted
Stefan Zweig's famous book is as much about its own context as an execution 300 years ago; its archness signals a time capsule, except that the rhetoric around women in power has changed so little.