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Elyse Martin

Elyse Martin is a Smith College graduate who lives in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in The Toast, Entropy Magazine, The Bias, Perspectives on History, and Smithsonian Magazine.

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Why Does Society Insist that Women Forgive Their Male Abusers?

Nov 10 - Elyse Martin

If Your History Is Full of Holes, How Do You Fill in the Blanks?

Aug 9 - Elyse Martin

Please Just Let Women Be Villains

Feb 25 - Elyse Martin

A Book of Medieval Italian Sex Stories Can Help Us Get Through the Pandemic

Mar 18 - Elyse Martin
Two women gossiping on a couch

Jane Austen’s Whisper Networks

Jan 22 - Elyse Martin

Literary-Inspired Decoration Ideas for a Horrifying White House Christmas

Dec 6 - Elyse Martin

These Middle-Grade Novels Are Some of the Most Formally Innovative Works of Our Time

Jul 24 - Elyse Martin
A production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" but with Captain Marvel, Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America photoshopped onto the main characters' faces

Samuel Beckett’s “Avengers: Endgame”

Apr 26 - Elyse Martin
A shellshocked-looking gargoyle from Notre Dame cathedral

Notre Dame Is Never Lost

Apr 16 - Elyse Martin

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