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‘I have… found someone to take care of me in the world,’ Marian Evans wrote to her brother in 1857, three years after setting up house with George Henry Lewes. Professing herself ‘well acquainted with his mind and character’, she requested that the modest income from her father’s legacy should in future be paid into
Marcus Junius Brutus, also called Quintus Caepio Brutus, (born probably 85 bce—died 42 bce, near Philippi, Macedonia [now in northwestern Greece]), Roman politician, one of the leaders in the conspiracy that assassinated Julius Caesar in 44 bce. Brutus was the son of Marcus Junius Brutus (who was treacherously killed by Pompey the Great in 77) and Servilia (who later became Caesar’s lover). After his adoption by an uncle, Quintus Servilius Caepio, he was commonly called Quintus Caepio Brutus. Brutus was brought up by another uncle, Cato the Younger, who imbued him with the principles of S...
"We should totally just stab Caesar!"
The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages
Parallel Lives In the opening scene, two Supreme Beings plan the beginning of the world. Once they’ve decided on the color scheme of the races, a little concerned that white people will feel slighted being such a boring color, they create sex and the sexes. Afraid women will have too many advantages, the Beings decide to make childbirth painful and to give men enormous egos as compensation. From this moment, the audience is whisked through the outrageous universe of Kathy and Mo, where two actresses play men and women struggling through the common rituals of modern life. Feb. 17-29, Thu-...