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2024 in review

major events

  • February 8: Moved into my first apartment.
  • March 31: Found my church, the first I've ever regularly attended.
  • June 7: Finished the first year of my PhD program.
  • June 17: My classics book club started.
  • August 30: Went to the Azores to visit my mom's family.
  • October 10: My abstract got accepted for an edited volume.
  • November 1: My oldest friend got engaged.
  • December 10: A different abstract got accepted for a conference.
  • December 30: Got my ears pierced.

top fives

Here are my top five new(-to-me) things of the year in a variety of categories. All are organized alphabetically (mostly by creator, else by title), to spare me the pain of attempting to rank things at so granular a level.

albums

  1. Bastille — &
  2. The Last Dinner Party — Prelude to Ecstasy
  3. Maude Latour — Sugar Water
  4. Milhanas — De Sombra a Sombra
  5. Xana — The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn't

books

  1. Carson, Anne. Nox. New York: New Directions, 2010.
  2. Enrigue, Álvaro. Sudden Death. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016.
  3. Herman, Judith Lewis. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
  4. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Clarion Books, 2020.
  5. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1929.

poems

  1. Diannely Antigua — "Training"
  2. Anne Carson — "Merry Christmas from Hegel"
  3. Leila Chatti — "Echo (All She Lost She Lost)"
  4. Mark Doty — "The Embrace"
  5. Ursula K. Le Guin — "Leaves"

visual art

  1. José Manuel de la Cerda — Turnus Provoked into War by Aeneas
  2. Nina Jordan — Untitled (Flooded Home V)
  3. Lévy, Henri-Leopold — The Death of Orpheus
  4. Stephen Nixon — Kyrios
  5. Vincent Van Gogh — First Steps, after Millet

articles and essays

  1. Carson, Anne. "Gloves On!" London Review of Books, August 15, 2024. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/anne-carson/gloves-on.
  2. Keegan, Paul. Review of Lethal Pastoral, by Peter Parker. London Review of Books, November 17, 2016. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n22/paul-keegan/lethal-pastoral.
  3. Schaffer, Michael. "I've Never Seen Washingtonians So Scared". Politico, July 19, 2024. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/washington-dc-political-violence-00169530.
  4. Sharrock, Alison. "Womanufacture". The Journal of Roman Studies 81 (1991): 36–49.
  5. Skopeliti, Cleo. "'Everyone was in the streets. I just felt happiness': Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution". The Guardian, April 25, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/everyone-was-in-the-streets-i-just-felt-happiness-portugal-recalls-the-carnation-revolution.

movies and episodes

  1. Annihilation
  2. "Boom" (Doctor Who 14.03)
  3. Conclave
  4. My Cousin Vinny
  5. "That Hope Is You, Pt. 1" (Star Trek: Discovery 3.01)

songs

  1. Sophie Cates — ghosts!
  2. The Last Dinner Party — My Lady of Mercy
  3. Meg Smith — jesus christ in a mini skirt
  4. VÉRITÉ — paranoia/deja vu
  5. Xana — the sex was good!
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