newyorker.com/magazine/1992/…

Is this body the one / I know as me? How private these words? And these?

who knew the emotional depths of the furniture historians

and these bathers – bernardo luini, 1520s

alessandro allori's ceiling fresco (1589) of women washing their hair and drying laundry on the terrace. could look at this all day.

📢 FIVE UK STUDENT ENCAMPMENTS AND COUNTING 📢

Today, students from Leeds (@leedspsg), Newcastle (@LoCNewcastle), Bristol (@Brisoccupy4pal) and Sheffield (@UoSPalSoc) have joined Warwick (@wwkstandspal) - demanding that our universities stop investing in Israel's genocide!

BREAKING: UNC students and community members have begun a tent encampment on Polk Place this morning, joining the pro-Palestine encampments happening at universities across the country.
 
This is Emmy Martin with live updates.

I love Sophie Smith's essay about women philosophers in this issue of the London Review of Books. Someone Called Brian Replied could be the title of my email inbox-memoir

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

translating sixteenth-century tuscan cow names

Title runs into first line.

Thank you London Review of Books Daniel Soar

No One Today lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

i see everyone is buying THEY FLEW

but you're all sleeping on robert orsi's HISTORY AND PRESENCE, which is approx. 1000x better:

'It is not safe to be so raw and vulnerable to real presences, to make desire and need so transparent.'

a beautiful, ruminative essay on teaching the humanities in the ruins of the university

lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/apri…

Read the whole review.

nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

the edge of the world (kitty hawk)

“In early modernity…saints & their miracles were physical evidence of the workings of supernatural grace in the natural world. They flew, they hovered, they teleported;…their bodies glowed with light; they could smell the sins of others.” —Erin Maglaque go.nybooks.com/3x2aAQ9

“Is God a magnet? I wondered, and then had to put down the book and get some air.” —Erin Maglaque go.nybooks.com/3IKp61B

carolyn forché --

'You taught me to live like this.'

i wrote about flying for The New York Review of Books 🪽🪽