Zadie Smith’s Debut Game Brings Chaucer to His Beloved Northwest

Smith translated Chaucer’s Middle English into a vernacular she called “Northern Weezian”, and “Wife of Willesden” is Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s wearing fake gold chains and fake Jimmy Choo heels. . and he speaks a mixture of London slang and patois. Its story takes the form of 18th century Jamaican folklore. …

Marie Antoinette’s Letters To Her Beloved Count of Sweden Are Now Uncensored

The year was 1791, and although Marie Antoinette did not win the favor of the French public, she did have a pen pal. His confidant, Axel von Fersen, was a Swedish earl and a close friend of the French queen. Between the summers of 1791 and 1792, after an unsuccessful escape attempt, the queen nevertheless …