Some #earlymodern remedies.
A set of #songs and #choruses from the Masque of #Mountebanks, where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...
This #Jacobean#masque was performed twice in London in 1618. First at #GraysInn, and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.
Naomi Alderman burst onto the scene in 2016 with The Power, an explosive and brilliant feminist apocalyptic parable. Now, seven years later, she's back with a chunky, propulsive second novel about a very different sort of apocalypse: The Future:
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In The Future, we get a cracking, multi-point-of-view adventure novel about billionaires prepping for the end of the world. Three billionaires, the lords of thinly veiled analogs to Facebook, Google and Amazon, each getting ready in their own way. Stumbling into their midst comes Lai Zhen, a prepper influencer vlogger with millions of followers.