This discovery has made me sensitive to the many other household devices not even remotely designed to accommodate the vicissitudes of aging.

FORBES: When I'm 64

This is just one of the many uses to which this iconic building has been put, vicissitudes which are traced with verve and erudition by Mary Beard in this highly readable book, the first in a new series on ancient buildings, which Ms Beard is also editing.

ECONOMIST: Classical antiquity