The Elgins’ Marbles

by | Aug 8, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 8: Panathenaea, the most important festival in ancient Athens, was held in mid-August, starting on August 8th according to some calculations. The festival is famous today for its closing pageant, as depicted in the marble friezes that Lord Elgin carted off to...

E-Numerations

by | Aug 7, 2013 | Book Reviews

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Ulysses in America

by | Aug 7, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 7: On this day in 1934, the U.S. Court of Appeals allowed James Joyce’s Ulysses into America. This enabled Random House to issue the first U.S. edition, over a decade after Sylvia Beach’s original Paris edition, and after a decade of American...