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Rebranding, for Good and Evil: A Links Round-Up

Well, the end of August is finally here, and you know what that means: FOOTBALL IS COMING BACK. Admittedly I have mixed and complicated feelings about both college and professional football, but I also really love watching it. So, uh, yeah. I have reached no conclusions on this matter. Meanwhile, have some links; autumn is coming. This article on fanfiction’s rebranding in the past few years is excellent, and features Naomi Novik saying many intelligent things. What it’s like for women who flee North Korea. The librarians who track down the books their patrons only sort of remember. Since I…

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Just Gonna Split These Down the Middle: A Links Round-Up

Welp, another Friday, another week of sexual assault revelations. Since I’m guessing some of y’all are tired of reading even quite excellent cultural commentary about sexual predators, I’m going to split these links up for you. Here’s the ones that don’t contain any sexual assault: It’s the year of our Lord 2017, and we are just now publishing the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman. (Buy it! The physical book is really beautiful!) Angelica Jade Bastien on Now Voyager I never don’t click on articles about the medieval historians trying to fend off Nazis. (Poor medieval historians! They…

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