'Vivid, informative and probing' is the verdict of the great King's London Latin professor, William Fitzgerald, of my Horace, Poet on a Volcano. 'A style out of Tacitus by way of Ronald Syme'. I'll proudly settle for that. Yale University Press London 📖 Yale University Press the-tls.com/classics/horac…

#WilliamFitzgerald on the new book on #Horace by Peter Stothard: the-tls.com/classics/horac…

A "gory, gripping story of an ex-slave’s son who became a war poet in the twilight of the Roman Republic and a courtier in the empire of Augustus."—Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal on Peter Stothard's Horace  wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

‘Horace’ Review: An Ode to the Poet wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via WSJ Books Section

‘Horace’ Review: An Ode to the Poet wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via WSJ Books Section

Horace for the Ages nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…

‘Horace’ Review: An Ode to the Poet - WSJ / ⁦Dominic Green⁩ reviews ⁦Peter Stothard⁩, my first boss in journalism wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Much looking forward to this. Do join us!

Great to see Horace in the Wall Street Journal's best reviews of August. Lots of good stuff ahead in September. wsj.com/arts-culture/b… Yale University Press London 📖 Yale University Press

The most powerful African in history. From the wonderful books pages of The Spectator today. Horoscopes and horror – the reign of Septimius Severus spectator.co.uk/article/horosc…

Thanks to John Broadley, famed in Soho for the quovadis interiors, for another adventure in Latin in the new NYRB, catching perfectly the fears explained in a long review of books by me and ⁦mary beard⁩

Our critic’s pick: “Horace: Poet on a Volcano,” by Peter Stothard (Yale University Press). Roger Kimball Yale University Press Peter Stothard newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

'Pert, canny and enchanting': The Critic’s Notebook on my Horace in the New Criterion. Thanks for all that. Does 'pert' in US English mean sexy, bold, sassy or what? Not so common on the British side of the Atlantic these days. Yale University Press Yale University Press London 📖 newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

A south-east Irish morning before the ⁦⁦⁦Write by the Sea⁩ festival in Wexford. A bit of writing by the sea would be very useful right now. Looking forward to coming back. ⁦Yale University Press⁩

This deal is too good to ignore - save 50% on "The Last Assassin", now through 10/21. Peter Stothard, Peter Stothard audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

John Le Carre’s tribute to the old owl wisdom of Somerset Maugham, a predecessor in turning spywork into art. From Tradecraft, a seriously intelligent exhibition of items from Le Carre’s newly catalogued archive at the Bodleian in Oxford ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Boy. John Le Carre, Alec Guinness and Le Carre’s son, now the novelist Nick Harkaway, on set on Hampstead Heath by the dead letter tree. From Tradecraft, the seriously intelligent exhibition from Le Carre’s newly catalogued archive. ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩

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