A Public Man By Andrew McConnell Stott The sheer gravitational weight of Lord Byron's fame had the power to distort everything around it. Francis Gastrell was very annoyed. He had bought a nice new…
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One soldier's last trip home. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4363/things-that-carried-him/
III: The Dead Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away;…
What happens when America's darkest crime writer sees the light?https://www.1843magazine.com/features/james-ellroy-finally-has-happiness-in-his-sights
Mine is a peaceable disposition," Heinrich Heine writes in his journals, declaring simple wishes: a humble cottage, some fine trees out front. But "if God wants to make my happiness complete," he adds, "he will…
Thirty years ago Sweden's prime minister was shot on one of Stockholm's busiest streets. The killer has never been found. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/16/olof-palme-sweden-prime-minister-unsolved-murder-new-evidence