Vindication A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon HarperCollins, 576 pp., $29.95 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is remembered chiefly as a kind of double forerunner: She was the mother of ...

THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. 468 pages. Oxford, $13.45. Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost ...

For the past several weeks, Brunch Drunk Love has sampled many and various brunch menus, from Lakewood to Uptown to Deep Ellum to Oak Cliff and even south to Austin. And in each, Brunch Drunk Love has ...

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As a girl in County Cork, the Irish actor Fiona Shaw walked past a statue of the Virgin Mary every day on her way to school. She didn’t care much for the sculpture—”this revolting statue, this ...

Mary (yes, that Mary) is often portrayed as obedient, peaceful and poised, but what happens when we dig deeper? When an author sets out to create a humanized version of our beloved virgin? The result ...

Scripture is rather scant on what Mary, the mother of Jesus, might have looked like, but if there’s one thing we can be sure of, it’s that she was not white. The earliest images of her—a painting on ...

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Q We have a hound dog named Mary who doesn’t listen worth a darn. We call and call her, but she won’t come. I can tell she hears me, because she will perk up her ears, but she continues to sniff and ...