A.M. Juster’s most recent book, Girlatee (Paul Dry Books, 2025), is his first children’s book. His translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere, which closely matches the rhyme and meter of the original text, is due in April from W.W. Norton.
William Langland included a riddle battle in the “Banquet of Conscience” section of Piers Plowman, a probable inspiration for Tolkien’s high-stakes riddle battle between Bilbo and Gollum in The Hobbit.
French departments do not stop teaching French literature after Moliere and Racine, Italian departments do not stop teaching Italian literature after Dante and Petrarch, so why do almost all classics departments feel they have no duty to study and teach Latin literature after Juvenal, Martial and Seneca?
