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Book Review: Dinner With King Tut by Sam Kean
A jaunt into the contemporary world of experimental archaeology, and how its scholars are attempting to recreate cultural practices from the ancient…
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11 Books I Read in 2025, Part 1
The first half of my literary diet for this year
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Book Review: Facing Down the Furies by Edith Hall
A review of a succinct exploration of a taboo topic, viewed both through the eyes of an academic and a victim of its wrath
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Book Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Reflections on Two Years of Weekly Uploads
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How Not To Translate Homer
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The 210 Theories Behind the Fall of Rome, Ranked: Part 1
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A List of Years That Rome Fell, Ranked
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The 210 Theories Behind the Fall of Rome, Ranked: Part 2
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In Pursuit of Didactic Poetry
Why this underappreciated subgenre of an underappreciated style of writing ought to become a fixture of any modern classroom worth its salt.
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Book Review: Pericles and Aspasia by Yvonne Korshak
A multifaceted novel about the relationship between Athens' greatest strategist and his favorite hetaira
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On Alice Van Vliet
An exploration into the life of an American schoolteacher in New York at the turn of the 20th century, her experiences, her writings, and some…
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Book Review: The Birder by Lorna Robinson
A fantastical trip into a world where human death has been replaced by metamorphosis
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Vance vs. Augustine, Round 2
A further dive into De Civitate Dei to dredge up some more contemporary issues facing JD Vance's behavior and the attitudes of the party he belongs to.
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Book Review: Delenda Est by Poul Anderson
A review of one novella in the Time Patrol series, set in a world where Rome fell to Carthage.
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On Neil Cicierega, Part Two
This week, I’ve copied out a hypothetical chapter in a hypothetical book about Neil Cicierega’s Mouth Sounds introducing why the Smash Mouth bit is so…
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