Dana G.

In the 16th century, the Venetian lawyer Odorico Pillone owned an extensive library, amassed on his family estate near Venice. In the 1580s, he decided to further enhance his collection by decorating sections of pages with various artistic illustrations, books at that time were often simply kept on shelves. The Italian graphic designer and painter Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601), a cousin of Titian, was chosen as the artist. In total, he illustrated 172 volumes. The themes of the illustrations were related to the content of the books themselves (which was convenient, as it made it easy to find a specific topic). According to Pillone, the painted pages transformed the library into a unique art gallery.

The pilot who died after the collision on the tarmac at New York's LaGuardia Airport was from Coteau-du-Lac Quebec. He was 30-year-old Antoine Forest. Rest in peace ❤️🇨🇦

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.” Philip Larkin Happy #WorldPoetryDay

John Coltrane - Equinox [1960] John Coltrane - tenor sax McCoy Tyner - piano Steve Davis - bass Elvin Jones - drums

Such a great read. One dude called James “close to unreadable,” probably because he doesn’t read. Sure, the old style takes getting used to, the winding sentences of so many classics. But once you get in there and can appreciate them, man…the one reason I read is to read more.

@BarryKeoghan Beautiful!

VALENTINO Thank you Alessandro ❤️🙏🏻 🌟

@jhendersonYT Yeah, that's weird. But maybe he is focusing on how mood accelerates the plot in The Road and how it hangs over the novel, and so that part is almost lyrical in a sense - in a sense. It's a very raw book, and I think maybe that is what he is getting at.

The Road is not lyrical! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here.

This is extremely big and public and humiliating for this writer, but just know: I’m also privately cancelling each and every writer who pitches me with AI (and I’m sure many other editors are too)…

The sea preserves words that died on land centuries ago. Words like “lee,” “abaft,” and “starboard” are living fossils of Old English. They survive in sailors’ speech after disappearing from everyday language. Here are the 1000-year-old words only sailors know... (thread) 🧵

A woman on a plane chose to voluntarily switch seats after someone nearby complained about a service dog. Instead of escalating the situation, she handled it calmly and helped ease the tension. Sometimes, small acts of understanding can make a stressful situation much smoother for everyone involved. Do you think you would’ve offered to switch seats in that situation, or stayed where you were?

@BethKinn1 @hell_line0 This haunted me ...

@hell_line0 When the wife walks away to end it on her own terms in The Road.

All of my male friends saying they would thrive in an apocalypse and being horrified when I say I would chose not to be a part of that: Not every women wants to survive the end of the world. Some of us are tired now. You think I want to see what happens when men stop pretending to behave?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: it really is enraging that university libraries have stopped buying physical copies of books.

I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric. *** The average was 64/100.*** My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85. Context: • This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material. • Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions. • Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay. • I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester. • We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture. • Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade). • Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz. *** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.*** After the midterm, students reported: • They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper. • They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement. My view: It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material. Moving forward: We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.

Our own Professor Cornel Bogle speaks to The Peak about the Caribbean diaspora and the multiplicity of Black experience in this recent article. the-peak.ca/2026/02/sfyou-… #sfuenglish #BlackHistoryMonth

Calling BAVS ECRs! Join @laurenicullen and I on Zoom today anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the @BAVS_UK Tea Time! DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️

Our undergraduate courses for summer 2026 are up! Check out all the engaging classes you can take from May to August this year. sfu.ca/english/underg… #sfuenglish

@PAHoyeck Edith Stein

Off the top of my head, and sticking to the 19th and 20th centuries alone: 1. Mary Wollstonecraft 2. Simone Weil 3. Hannah Arendt 4. Simone de Beauvoir 5. G.E.M. Anscombe 6. Philippa Foot 7. Mary Midgley 8. Iris Murdoch 9. Christine Korsgaard 10. Sharon Street

There’s this never-ending debate about whether em dashes, semicolons, and colons have become signs of AI writing. As a result, many of us writers have stopped using them—swapping them for commas or reshaping sharp, effective sentences into something blander—to avoid suspicion. But AI was trained on the best of us. On millions of published works by real authors. It learned from our voices, our rhythms, our punctuation. And now we’re acting as if those marks somehow belong to machines. They don’t. Those tools were ours long before AI existed. Our teachers taught us how and when to use them, years before anyone imagined generative AI. So let’s take them back. Let’s use the full range of language with confidence. The em dash, the semicolon, the colon—they’re not signals of artificiality. They’re signs of craft. #WritingCommunity #writerslife

The US mind can't comprehend this.