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Olympia’s evolution over eleven centuries reveals the way Greece as a whole evolved through its archaic, classical and Hellenistic ages. The site’s monuments and memorials are markers of historical turning points. @JamesRomm on a new cultural history: https://t.co/qbJxLGhOFg

ICYMI: A look back at @chrislancette's review of @DavidGessner's "fast-paced but powerful" QUIET DESPERATION, SAVAGE DELIGHT: SHELTERING WITH THOREAU IN THE AGE OF CRISIS (@TorreyHouse): https://t.co/W6CfQ5Y70f https://t.co/powmf3VJMV

Book covers so bad they're good. https://t.co/13DhU0CZbN

‘The figure of Stephen is more vivid to me than those of Joyce and Nora, because Stephen is not dead, he is on the page. I sometimes resent the way biographers rip through the fictions to reach the writer on the other side.’ Anne Enright on ‘Ulysses’: https://t.co/cj632xMcr9

Sign up now for our partner @catapultstory's online poetry workshop with Chase Berggrun (@patriphobe)! Class is filling fast—register today. https://t.co/O6Izk4DSw2

A locked-room mystery, a Scandinavian thriller, a reframe of American history, and more of the best book deals of the day: https://t.co/RyZE3flKnM

Long weekend? More time to read! Here's what's on tap this week: https://t.co/QGiiqnwdxI https://t.co/9EaaMmZvHb

"It wasn’t until we got there that I fully understood how London, an old city, was not built with accessibility in mind." (via @lithub) https://t.co/glhwDc7WSt

‘Shopping, furniture and small children were transported with difficulty and sometimes in combination, prams being often used to bring up the coal. Bread and milk were delivered, the muffin man came with his bell.’ @misspegler on the Eltham hutments: https://t.co/u7FS01M0gU https://t.co/0q1giDtikm

Two poems on Gilmore Girls and WAP. https://t.co/Lr6y2kuSbP

Any aspiring biographer of Elizabeth Stuart must be ‘relentless, dedicated and bloody-minded’, according to Nadine Akkerman – ‘not unlike’ Elizabeth herself. Clare Jackson reviews ‘Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts’: https://t.co/wvzX06K0Ws