This is for a Belgian university press (Leuven). I’ve had to use double quotation marks, too. Now worried that my native Ohio may cancel my consecutive wins as the state’s top high school student in English, 1987 and 1988.

Hello from the north of England ...

Thanks for extra info - I think I came across that, or an earlier version, when writing Treasured. Certainly another example of how the photographs are still the story - for better or (often) worse… Hope it was a nice day out in any case!

‘Burton was however a genius’? So this isn’t from the Met - presumably the Tut tomb people in Dorchester? I meant to go there for ‘Treasured’ but the pandemic deprived me of the chance… Or, perhaps, gave me a lucky escape. (Highclere Castle ditto.)

Burton’s negs were 18x24cm (to be finicky!). This show is new to me: I curated exhibitions in Lincoln and Cambridge, never in Oxford. The Met’s previous focus was on Burton as an ‘artist’ … hope they’ve moved on.

Bologna is not in Tuscany. The ragu is served with tagliatelle.

I don’t know why Alba Rohrwacher didn’t tell them that there’s no such thing as ‘spaghetti alla bolognese’ in Italy, and especially not in Tuscany.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.