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Inside the Literary Salon I: the Female Voice of the French Renaissance
Columnist Martha Leggett discusses the legacy left by female-only salons in French literary culture.
Flâneur bops and flops 1: Songs for when you gaslight so much, your husband girlbosses— a Madame Bovary playlist
Have you ever wondered which Mitski song best encapsulates the psycho-sexual melodrama of Madame Bovary? If you answered yes then I hate you but you're welcome to read this column nonetheless - though, you're on thin ice.
Two Birds with One Stone II - Full of Beanz
Columnist Pippa Mentzel explores the brilliant and bizarre linguistic phenomena of idioms to uncover what they show us about our cultural heritage and how our imaginative human mind revels in describing the world around us. In the second instalment, Pippa talks us through the origins and usages of two bean-related idioms.
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