This Week’s Selections
I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality (link)
On King Tut (link) — “Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the Presidency of Millard Fillmore. Yet the anniversary of the excavation has occasioned everything from new histories and documentaries to traveling exhibitions and children’s books, each of which contains its own implicit argument about Tutankhamun’s appeal.”
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