Friday Varia and Quick Hits

The year is almost over and it feels like it’s ending how it started with the threat of snow. Fortunately, if this big storm comes, there are plenty of books, articles, papers, and syllabi to keep us occupied as well as two dogs who refuse to understand the concept of snow despite living in North Dakota for most of their lives. There’s also the Boxing Day Test, the first college football play off games, and the last NFL contests.

All the best in the new year, and please enjoy this post-holiday gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Some great suggestions on how to kill the canon in ancient history. 

• Neville Morley’s blog posts of the year.

• Free books from the Center of Hellenic Studies.

• Evangelos Chrysos on the pope’s ghost writer.

• New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture.

• The campus novel.

• RIP Eliot Glassheim.

• Maya Poetry into Tamil.

• Human Rights in the Age of Platforms.

• Writing the Anthropocene.

• Climate Change and Cricket.

• Unmaking World Literature.

• What I’m reading: Craig Rodgers, The Ghost of Mile 43. (Soft Cartel 2019).

• What I’m listening to: Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble, Where Future Unfolds.