La Finca de los Monos y los 130 hijos de Rosalía Abreu
130 monos estuvieron alguna vez, durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, bajo el manto protector de una mujer extraordinaria: Rosalía Abreu.
Going ape for this, my first piece for Gatopardo, long one of my favourite mags: re heiress Rosalía Abreu’s Monkey Mansion in Havana, eugenics and Soviet attempts in 1920s to create a chimp-human hybrid - gatopardo.com/revista/los-...
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Writer, critic, historian, editor etc
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What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost is published by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Astra House (US)
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Editor, 1843. Author, How to Ruin a Queen. Winner, Somerset Maugham Award
MELTING POINT coming to the US in May 2025 @fsgbooks.bsky.social
senior editor at Harper's / contrib at The Drift
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American Literature & Digital at the TLS | Reviews elsewhere: ArtReview, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator | george.berridge@the-tls.co.uk
Writer, editor, book designer | Literary Review
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Postdoc @athenainstitute.bsky.social | investigating connected histories of soy production in BR/consumption in NL | studied to be a historian; now working on interpretations of pasts in the present, exploring how people are #Making&DoingHistory
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Author and Classicist. Catullus' Bedspread; In the Shadow of Vesuvius; Homer; Of Gods and Men; Not Far From Brideshead; and most recently The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Investigative journalist in Latin America at OCCRP. Organised crime, corruption, environment, illicit finance
Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member @WomenWritersNet. Lit Dir, Hampstead Arts Fest. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
Writer, editor, critic. Chair of the Authors Club & Best First Novel Award. Former Director, WiPC, English PEN. Books incl #ACountrytoCallHome #ACountryofRefuge #TheGoodTourist & #AnotherSky. https://www.lucypopescu.com/
Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.
