The Accidental Feminist

The author of Forever Barbie offers an appreciation of one of the most glamorous movie stars of all time from a startling perspective. M. G. Lord argues that, in films such as National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, and Butterfield 8, Elizabeth Taylor's roles challenged long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and power. A counterintuitive take on a still-fascinating personality.

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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