The Weekly · Issue No. 6 · Sunday, 13 September 2026
Issue No. 6
From this issue the newsletter changes shape. We now publish more on the site than any reader could reasonably keep up with, so each week we will send you the five pieces we think best. Everything else stays on the site; this is simply where we point.
This week's five run from the mothers missing from Frankenstein to the woman behind Lafcadio Hearn, by way of a Mesopotamian goddess, Japanese architecture, and the moral panic over social media.
Hector Hallett, Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Literature · Essay
The Erasure of Motherhood in FrankensteinThe hubris of Prometheus bringing the fire of life to humanity
Ishanvi Gunnowree



Classics · Essay
A Goddess of Love and War: Reconciling Ishtar and VenusTracing Ishtar's journey to Aphrodite and Venus, and how her suppressed features reappear
Alec Grinter

Politics · Essay
Panic and Public Policy: The Social Construction of Social Media AddictionAnalysing a generation's greatest concern.
Brad Turland

