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Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock knew the power of a meal gone fatally wrong. From poisoned tarts to deadly dinner parties, their murder mysteries had the knack of transforming the domestic into... Read more »
In the nineteenth century, when a character had premarital sex, you held your breath not for an abortion but for a wedding. Think of “Pride and Prejudice,” where Lydia’s child marriage comes... Read more »
“It is now urgent to dare to know oneself, to confess to oneself what one is, to ask oneself what one wants to be.” —Suzanne Césaire, Tropiques When I was a... Read more »