Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall’s work has recently appeared in The New Republic and The Week, where she is a contributing writer. She lives in Philadelphia.
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A Blood-Thirsty Gentleman
Bram Stoker’s Dracula terrorized a nation with its greatest fear—the foreigner who can transform into an Englishman. More
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Gilt by Association
The Marie Antoinette cliché is easy to not just summon, but accessorize: there is the pouf, the diamond necklace, the dressmaker’s bills, and the toy farm. There is the fat husband, the overbearing mother, and the dashing Swedish count. And then there are the turns of phrase both too flippant and too penitent to really be believed: “let them eat cake,” as she presumably nibbled her own, and “forgive me, sir, I did not mean to do it,” as she stepped on her executioner’s foot. More