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Decrypting the correspondence of Mary, Queen of Scots

Francophony

by Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, Sergio Della Sala,

From a paper by Nicoletta Beschin, Angela de Bruin, and Sergio Della Sala that was published in the August 2016 issue of the scientific journal Cortex.

Le Mot Injuste

by Abdelfattah Kilito,

By Abdelfattah Kilito, from The Tongue of Adam, which was published this month by New Directions. Kilito was born in Morocco in 1945. Translated from the French by Robyn Creswell.

The Tutelage of Charlotte and Emily Brontë

by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas,

The Brontë sisters’ devoirs on filial love, under the instruction of Constantin Heger

This Is My Body, Have Seconds

by Lionel Poilâne,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

The following letter was sent to the pope last October by Lionel Poiliâne, a prominent French baker who died in a helicopter crash later that month. Translated from the French…