Just out of the oven.  Well, sort of.

Good review of two books on walking.  

This is a nice article. Michael Dirda, the Washington Post book reviewer, gives some details about books, movies, blogs that he has been using to pass the time. Lots of good stuff in here, especially the blogs.

Wow, I think this is a really fine, rich essay on T.S. Eliot.  It mostly traffics in generalities about his writing, but I have the sense that behind the generalities the writer, Vijay Seshadri, could back them up with examples.  I will be coming back to it; I recommend it to you heartily.  

Anne Applebaum on five memoirs of life under communism in Eastern Europe.  Highly recommended.  

And in our current authoritarian exemplar, generational differences, long present, have recently come roaring to the fore.  This will be worth following in coming years.

I’ll be thinking about this one for a while: How the Buddha got his face.  Did you know the Buddha’s face wasn’t represented in statuary or image for 600 years?  I didn’t.  

Just came across this, from 2014(!!).  It’s a good piece on Eusebius, arguing that recent scholarship suggests he’s not a “court theologian” of Constantine but a deeper theologian.  I’m not entirely convinced the two compose an either/or, but this piece is helpful.  

Stay safe out there!  And in there, too.