March 7, 2026

Five for Friday 732

Welcome to Friday,

Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.

A British scientist has been recovered in Antarctica more than fifty years after he was lost in a crevasse.

On translating Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

One poet’s lovely Erasure Notebooks.

Today, 15 August, has been a surprisingly active day in history.

All about dates, civilization’s sweetest indulgence.

Currently reading: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Have a creative weekend.


Sun Breaking through Clouds above the Roman Campagna, Frey, Johann Jakob. 1844 or later.