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Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

… Terror . As Frankenstein reflects, “dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now a hell …
A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.

International Women's Day

… women in Saint Petersburg, exasperated by rising food prices and rapidly deteriorating living conditions, led …
Chinese nuclear bomb on display in China.

A Danger Shared by All

… is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book “Ending World Hunger: School …
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985

Rough Weather Ahead

Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz (Princeton University Press, 2015)
… wipe out major elements of the infrastructure for providing food, drinking water, and shelter. The question of how …
Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

… could reproduce more rapidly than they could grow more food from the land. Given this tragic imbalance Malthus … could sort of obtain, you know, their next meal or the food they needed or the cash they needed for other expenses. …