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Mere creatures of a day: The search for permanence in archaic and classical poetry
The Times Literary Supplement
Review by Richard Hunter of Sarah Nooter's (Classics) recent book Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. This review has been made available for our UChicago community and friends by kind permission of The Times Literary Supplement, where it first appeared in the issue of February 23, 2024.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
The New York Times
Tina Post (English Language and Literature) listed as one of the 2023 Book Critics Circle Award Winners for her book Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, published in 2022 by New York University Press.

Artist Theaster Gates on Changing His Image to Attract Investors | The Businessweek Show
Bloomberg Originals
Artist and urban planner Theaster Gates (Visual Arts) talks about investors, developing Chicago's South Side, and how he plans to say goodbye after 20 years of neighborhood transformation.

How Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates are preserving Black culture | Amplify with Lara Downes
NPR Music
Singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae is one of many artists and scholars who have found revelation and inspiration in Theaster Gates's Rebuild Foundation.