Afternoon Tea (12/20/18)

American Women of the Far Right

The Real Sex Lives of Historical Queens

The Homer We Want

Translating Life in Iran

40 Years Later: How We Talk About Jonestown And Why It Matters

Morning Coffee (7/16/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News

What a shock: Jill Stein’s Recount Cash Pays for Her Russia Legal Defense

Here’s How Kavanaugh Could Deal a Big Blow to Gun Control

Amazon Is Used to Promote White Supremacist Merchandise and Views, Report Says

Here is President Obama's summer reading list. I MISS HIM.

I bet he doesn't have a summer reading list: Donald Trump is excellent at selling books that trash him; mediocre at selling books that praise him.

How Many Teenage Girls Deliberately Harm Themselves? Nearly 1 in 4, Survey Finds.

Quite the editor's note: This New York Times Writer Failed to Mention She Used Her Husband As a Source on Vagina Selfies

In a cosmic first, scientists detect ‘ghost particles’ from a distant galaxy

Ooh! Ancient find may be earliest extract of epic Homer poem Odyssey

Afternoon Tea (11/14/17)

This is fascinating and this book immediately went onto my Christmas list: The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English

Aww, my friend Tim! Shopping for a Life He Didn’t Yet Have

The Secret History of Cricket Magazine, the ‘New Yorker for Children’

I wish to read a romance novel series about these brothers immediately: When He Needs Advice, a Philadelphia Flyer Turns to His Brother the Dancer

The Ancient Roman Cult That Continues to Vex Scholars (The Precession of the Equinox takes down another copyeditor, I see.)

Afternoon Tea (9/29/17)

Such a good, interesting read: This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back

Playing Indian: How a fight over Native American symbolism in Oregon brought to light the conflict at America's core.

This about new translations of the Iliad is fascinating: The Art of Wrath

The Banned 1910s Magazine That Started a Feminist Movement in Japan

A Chorus of Mazel Tovs in Uganda

...Lunchtime Coffee? (8/21/15)

Sorry! Time got away from me this morning, but I didn't want to entirely deprive you of some HAPPY FRIDAY LINKS.

It's Friday. Have 25 Photos of Famous Authors in Uniform. (What is your DAMAGE, Faulkner?)

IT'S FRIDAY. You really, really need to watch Baby Can't Contain Her Excitement When She Sees a Cat.

In other important cat news: School adopts a cat? Fine. But HE HAS AN ID CARD, YOU GUYS.

Hugh Jackman would really be the perfect Odysseus for a Lionsgate movie, huh?

See the Stunning Portraits That Will Mark Queen Elizabeth's Record-Breaking Reign

Whoa: Visit every place on this vintage US map for the most epic road trip ever

If You Had Married King Henry VIII…….What Would Your Fate Have Been?

Paintings Where The Subject Is Clearly Thinking “Oh, Christ, I’ve Left The Iron On”