“a trail of books sold under duress …” “that many of these books were acquired in circumstances morally dubious at best, clearly illegal and unethical at worst, can no longer be ignored.” Say #provenance - you hear the loudest ‘Shush!’ in the library… #bookhistory theconversation.com/when-europes...

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I am thrilled that Anne Carson won the Nobel, not least because now I can say that I once got a Nobel prize winner to believe one of my false definitions in a game of Dictionary. (An Ann Arbor Thanksgiving in the early 00s. I was otherwise so overawed by her presence that I could barely speak.)

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Le replay de notre journée d’études sur la reconstitution virtuelle des jardins de Versailles (22 septembre 2026), organisée avec l’université de Stuttgart, est en ligne ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAy... #versaillesrecherche

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Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

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It is notable that Anne Carson is the fourth Nobel laureate whose work has included serious engagement with Thucydides, and the second in ten years: Albert Camus, Czesław Miłosz, Peter Handke. (More debatable in the cases of Winston Churchill and Bob Dylan).

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