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Boarding School

World Health Religion

The Haunting of Girlstown

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

Daniel Hernandez Epic May 2020 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Short History of Zaka the Zulu"

The downfall of a Jesuit school prefect.

Petina Gappah New Yorker Sep 2016 Permalink

Crime

The Headmistress and the Diet Doctor

The night the doctor behind the Scarsdale Diet was shot by his mistress, the impeccable headmistress of the elite all-girls boarding school Madeira.

Anthony Haden-Guest New York Mar 1980 20min Permalink