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June 16, 2020
Critical Mass
Jo Livingstone
Asterix Comes to America
The raucous francophone comic book series has been cleaned up for a new audience. Can it survive the edit?
July 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Rod Dreher’s Bad History
On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.
August 30, 2017
Scott Spillman
War, Civil War, or Revolution?
David Armitage's book tracks changing definitions of civil war, from Ancient Rome to the American Civil War to now.
July 11, 2016
James Romm
The Erotic Bard of Ancient Rome
The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should.
November 10, 2015
James Romm
Citizens United
Mary Beard writes the people’s history of Rome in her new book “SPQR.”
January 30, 2014
Alice Robb
Archaeologists Have Found the Oldest Roman Temple
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