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It takes a lot of confidence in these days of NIL and the NCAA transfer portal to write a book called The Locker Room Is Not for Sale – given many of us are very skeptical indeed of such a claim. However, this book is different: for the past 40 years, Brian White, a former Harvard quarterback I...
Dwight
I recently read the revised edition of Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Phaenomena of Aratus (titled The Sky Is Our Song: The “Phaenomena” of Aratus) and thoroughly enjoyed it. This edition is lovely, too. Spencer A. Klavan has extended comments of the poem in New Criterion titled “A...
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Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny Knopf, 2024 Update: I didn’t realize my post had been made with an early draft I had made before I finished the book. I’ve added my comments on the last section of the book at the bottom of the post. It doesn’t make for a good flow, but wanted to include all...
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Tastes and Traditions: A Journey through Menu History Reaktion Books, 2025 Menus, by definition, promise to serve as guides for diners, presenting or at times clarifying food choices. But in Tastes and Traditions I have argued that menus are also—and even more so—strategic documents: they...