{"id":282,"date":"2024-02-27T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/?page_id=282"},"modified":"2024-09-13T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:26:36","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Kousser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-595x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-595x1024.jpeg 595w, https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-174x300.jpeg 174w, https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-768x1322.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-892x1536.jpeg 892w, https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-1190x2048.jpeg 1190w, https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-1568x2699.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Retouched_Rachel_Kousser_Select-9998673_flat_30mb-scaled.jpeg 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Rachel Kousser is a writer and professor of Classics and Art History at the City University of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Praise for <em>Alexander at the End of the World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Kousser\u2019s novelistic account, with its emphasis on personalities and intrigues, makes for compulsive reading. The result is a fresh and propulsive take on an ancient figure who grappled with how to govern a diverse society.&#8221; \u2014 Publishers&#8217; Weekly (starred review)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"The%20Best%20Reviewed%20Books%20of%20the%20Month\">The Best Reviewed Books of the Month<\/a>,\u201d <em>Bookmarks, Lithub, <\/em>July 31, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Kousser is a writer and professor of Classics and Art History at the City University of New York. Praise for Alexander at the End of the World &#8220;Kousser\u2019s novelistic account, with its emphasis on personalities and intrigues, makes for compulsive reading. The result is a fresh and propulsive take on an ancient figure who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rachel Kousser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelkousser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}