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I bought a copy a few weeks and read most of it on 'holiday.' I enjoy your long-form essays quite a bit, I hope you continue those. The LRB review was patient and detailed as well.

And her review of the film is not that as a classicist but as a literature professor, which I believe she also is or has been. Her critique is of the screenplay and the weak character development. It's an intelligent and specific review.

I look forward to reading that, thanks. I did read the LRB review earlier today, and I bought a copy of Wilson's Across the Wine Dark sea a few weeks ago. Agree with her on not, she makes a clear, well-supported case both for her re-translation choices and in her criticism of Nolan's adaptation.

There's also a superiority of western civilization angle to this, something that's haunted translation and other academic fields for decades. See: Edith Hamiliton's 'Greek miracle' and 'light of the West vs. the dark, savage barbarism' of the East. See also: Stephen Miller's CK eulogy.

So... show me you haven't read the Odyssey without saying it, jfc.

Solid teaching move. What'd you read second semester?

I took an entire grad school class at UChicago on Ulysses and it still didn't make any sense. Maybe I was just too young. In any case, some people are in desperate need of a Socratic seminar exploring what they think 'woke' means (which, coincidentally, I'd trace back to the Apology).

Jfc, maybe just don't "cover" sports at all if all you have is this culture war bullshit.

How about five active bands that have five albums you own and have entirely listened to (and love)? Tedeschi Trucks Brandi Carlile Los Lobos Galactic Bela Fleck

Mike Mignola

Vaguely embarrassed that I can't play this game, but five entire books is a lot, so I'll feel good about recently dead Joan Didion, James Baldwin, and Roger Zelazny (not so recent, but fuck off) over still-drawing-breath GRRM.

Hmm, okay. Will withdraw from this part of the discourse.

I agree, as a public high school teacher for over 30 years and as the father of an amazing 19 year-old young woman who would also agree and go a few steps further.

1) A hyphen is a useful thing; 2) "invaded" is the wrong verb. Try harder, copy and headline writers.

I have a phone, and I can carry a whistle. What else? I don't want to get detained, but if I put myself in between the goons and my students/friends/neighbors and that happens, what should I do and not do? What should I tell my wife to do if I get grabbed?

I could use some direction here. I'm not an activist, so I'm not going to go out of my way looking for trouble, but I've trained myself since last fall to be watchful, especially in and around restaurants and landscaping and construction crews. If and when I see goons, I'm not going to do nothing.

Rowed? Like, a boat?

One of my favorite, and one of our greatest, American writers. I reread The Fire Next Time every summer, looking for more wisdom, and Sonny's Blues might be the best short story ever.

Exactly correct. During Trump 1 my daughter asked why I still put it up: because it's not their flag, it's ours. God bless America.

Outstanding. I'm in London on holiday, and the one and only type of cuisine we really haven't seen anywhere in town is proper American BBQ (not a complaint, since I can make myself at home).