What George Eliot’s Victorian masterpiece can teach us about struggling, erring humans What George Eliot’s Victorian masterpiece can teach us about struggling, erring humans Corbis Alexander Nazaryan ...

You couldn’t ask for a better guide through the intriguing life of novelist George Eliot than British-born Rebecca Mead, a staff writer at The New Yorker, who first read Eliot’s Middlemarch as an ...

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I first walked down the streets of Middlemarch and met its vivid inhabitants when I was an earnest 20-year-old English major. For me, George Eliot’s classic novel was not an assigned reading in a ...

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From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...

Like many other readers, I first picked George Eliot's Middlemarch because I had to, as part of an undergrad seminar on the Victorian novel. I was less daunted by its length than by its mass – the ...

The idea that “shame works”—that stigmatizing behaviors and shaming the people who do them are necessary and honorable tools of public policy—is a recurring ...

My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch. My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. The place had begun to ...

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If Michael Bloomberg were a figure from a nineteenth-century novel, it would be one written by Anthony Trollope, whose depictions of the uneasy intersection of class, money, and politics—especially in ...

Middlemarch Partners LLC has formed a new investment vehicle Middlemarch Private Capital. Dean Larson will lead Middlemarch Private Capital. Also, Middlemarch has hired Elliot Weinberg as an associate ...