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• On NPR’s All Things Considered, Elizabeth Cobbs, author of The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, explained the origins of the ‘bilingual wire experts’ program—General John Pershing’s recognition of male incompetence—and the result: a dramatic gain in communications efficiency.
• Kirsten Swinth, author of Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family, spoke with the Atlantic about national amnesia surrounding second-wave feminism.
• Gunnar Decker’s Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow was central to a New Yorker feature on the author’s life as “an uneasy compromise between his spiritual absolutism…and his human needs.”
• The Observer asked Donna Zuckerberg, author of Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age, about social media’s role in “elevating misogyny.”

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November 8: Two Paths to Completion

Fall for three new Loebs! Below, Loeb Classical Library General Editor Jeffrey Henderson introduces the latest additions to what critic Adam Kirsch calls “one of the greatest accomplishments of modern scholarship.” In fall 2018 the Loeb Classical Library celebrates the completion of one important edition, Hippocrates, the “father of medicine” (LCL 538), and the revision and expansion of another, Hesiod (LCL 57 and 503), whose importance to the Greek poetic tradition is rivalled only by Homer. Thus, the Library continues its policy over the past half-century both of enhancing the collection by adding new volumes and of renewing it by revising or replacing earlier volumes. But as these latest volumes show, the process of enhancemen…