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Today in The New York Review of Books: Poorna Swami watches the uprising in India; Lucas Adams goes duck amuck with the Looney Tunes; Christopher Alessandrini visits Ossabaw Island; and, from the archives, Robert Bernard Martin on Mary Shelley.

Poorna Swami
‘Every Tiny Molecule of Ash’

India’s historic youth uprising brought together a wide and fractured coalition. Where can it go from here?

Lucas Adams
‘You’ll Never Catch Him!’

Rising Lazarus-like from the Warner Brothers Discovery tomb, Coyote vs. Acme is an inventive, remarkably wistful movie that confronts the Looney Tunes with the grind of contemporary capitalism.

Christopher Alessandrini
The Center of All Creation

For the artists and intellectuals who lived there across two decades of pioneering residency programs, Georgia’s Ossabaw Island was a potent source of inspiration.

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Free from the Archives

Today is Mary Shelley’s 229th birthday. In the Review’s June 29, 1989, issue, Robert Bernard Martin wrote about a new biography of Shelley, which, while largely concentrating on the Frankenstein author’s personal life, “rather than her writing, [did] suggest how both heredity and circumstance urged on her the literary life by which she was to support herself after [her husband’s] death.”

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Romance Incarnate

“In the midst of all the tensions vibrating in the air, Byron, Shelley, and Mary began telling ghost stories one wet day in the salon of the Villa Diodati…. From her own story told then, Mary Shelley wrote one of the most enduring of Romantic fictions, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, in which Frankenstein, a student, constructs a manlike body from bones taken from the charnel house, then endows it with life but is unable to prevent its being a monstrous horror.”

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