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First Cover of the NYT Book Review
The New York Times Book Review turns 125 this year. The front page of the first edition published in October 1896 carried a story about the condition of Oscar Wilde who was serving the final year of his jail sentence.
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Worst Revolution Ever
This is the best piece of writing I have read about the events of last week. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/worst-revolution-ever/617623/
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snowballs from 1897
‘In Lyon, this street from the snowball fight is still there. It still looks basically identical: the trees, the buildings. I am staring at it now on my computer screen, and in my mind I am already planning a trip, imagining a pilgrimage, in some unrecorded future” – Sam Anderson
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Antoine Ó Flatharta 