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A freewheeling Cavafy for modern times

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

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Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, faced with the colossal challenge of illustrating both The Iliad and The Odyssey , eschewed grandstand views of monumental battles, looking instead for what he calls the little cracks in the paving stones

The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am