When I headed to the grocery store, all I needed were blueberries and cream to top a pound cake I'd made. I pulled into the parking lot and found a space close to the door, dashed into the store, made ...

It had been so long since I’d run into Mary Contrary I thought she’d moved. However, as I struggled to get my mask on outside the grocery store in a fearsome wind I heard a familiar voice. “Hey ...

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is remembered chiefly as a kind of double forerunner: She was the mother of the far more famous Mary Shelley, wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author of ...

THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. 468 pages. Oxford, $13.45. Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost ...

As a girl in County Cork, the Irish actor Fiona Shaw walked past a statue of the Virgin Mary every day on her way to school. She didn’t care much for the sculpture—”this revolting statue, this ...

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Mary (yes, that Mary) is often portrayed as obedient, peaceful and poised, but what happens when we dig deeper? When an author sets out to create a humanized version of our beloved virgin? The result ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. That bit of maritime history is very much worth absorbing. Unfortunately, the woke busybodies who have dedicated ...

Q We have a hound dog named Mary who doesn’t listen worth a darn. We call and call her, but she won’t come. I can tell she hears me, because she will perk up her ears, but she continues to sniff and ...