Nonfiction | By Theodora Goss
The Fin-de-Siècle Monster
London is a time-machine. As you walk through the city, you move through different eras: there is the house where Dickens lived, the hospital where Keats received his medical training, Shakespeare’s theater. You experience all the Londons that have existed, superimposed as in a palimpsest. I was in London to research a particular time: …