Bitch on Sappho May 17, 2011: For their Feministory series, Bitch magazine has pulled together a dossier of sorts on the lyric poet Sappho, about whom very little is actually known despite the respect her work receives both now and during her lifetime (about 615 to 550 BC). What is known is that she taught at a school for unmarried women, Plato referred to her as the 10th [...] by Harriet Staff

Your epithalamium is showing November 20, 2010: Adam O'Riordan takes Guardian readers on a tour through epithalamia (no x-rays or invasive surgery required.) Though it sounds more like an obscure piece of anatomy you never knew existed until you embarrassingly managed to strain it while mowing the lawn, the epithalamium is "a handsome but disconcertingly formal word meaning simply a poem for a [...] by Harriet Staff