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The Wonder of the Ordinary | Mary Beard

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By Mary Beard
| Lapham's Quarterly
In 1960, when my mother decided I was old enough to be taken from the village where we lived, on the border between England and Wales, to visit some of the sights of London, we made a beeline for the British Museum.
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6 New Books We Love This Week

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By Theo Baker, Priya Parmar, Mary Beard
| The New York Times
Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and everything in between. Image How to Rule the World by Theo Baker Baker arrived at Stanford in 2022 as a bright-eyed freshman wanting to climb the Silicon Valley ladder.
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TALKING CLASSICS

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By Mary Beard
| Kirkus Reviews
A passionate defense particularly notable for its bracing lack of old fogeyism. “What is the point of the ancient classics?” asks the noted scholar and popularizer.
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