No one knows the exact date of Gaius Valerius Catullus’s birth, but as the weather is glum today and as the pandemic grows longer and deadlier, and as we need a break, I’ve decided to celebrate Catullu’s birthday right now. Catullus, a Roman who lived around two thousand and seventy …
We’re all doing a lot of hand washing these days. I was taught to wash my hands a long time ago, but back than it wasn’t a matter of life and death. My mother told me over and over again Wash your hands! Actually, she said it in Italian, Lava …
Stamp Out Starving Writers! Buy Their Books! That’s our motto here at Critical Pages. And in celebration of spring, we suggest you stroll over to your local bookstore and buy something. And if your local bookstore sells cards and trinkets and stuffed animals, we suggest you buy a book anyway. …
