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Review: Barry Yourgrau, A Neo-Nazi in Iceland
A mostly invented regular boy, on a dark path
Nov 14
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Notebook: (2) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Fruits of literature-in-place
Nov 12
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (1) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Keeping it going: The Berry Center’s Kentucky Arts and Letters Day and the Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books
Nov 11
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Ann Kjellberg
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Letter to Readers
Feb 19
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (1) Mother Tongue
May 7
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Notebook: How Do Your Novels Grow?
Jan 26
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Ann Kjellberg
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Back at the Wheel
Mar 19
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: Books Are Dead! Long Live Books!
May 12, 2024
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: Ephemera
Sep 28
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Ann Kjellberg
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Fiction and literature
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Review: Barry Yourgrau, A Neo-Nazi in Iceland
A mostly invented regular boy, on a dark path
Nov 14
6
Review: Tracy Daugherty on Peter Matthiessen
When cataloguing a subject’s contradictions reveals more than the biographer intends
Oct 29
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Muriel Spark
A disordered perfectionist
Oct 15
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Review: Tracy Daugherty on Thomas Pynchon
Stranger even than his fiction
Oct 8
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Review: Michael Robbins on “Bomarzo”
A literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color.
Sep 3
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Ann’s Notebooks
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Notebook: (2) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Fruits of literature-in-place
Nov 12
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Ann Kjellberg
8
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Notebook: (1) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Keeping it going: The Berry Center’s Kentucky Arts and Letters Day and the Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books
Nov 11
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Ann Kjellberg
8
2
1
Notebook: Ephemera
Ephemeralists arise!
Sep 28
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (2) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
History and society
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Review: Hugh Eakin on “Stan and Gus”
A dual biography of Stanford White and Augustus Saint-Gaudens considers art, money, friendship, and infamy
Nov 5
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Diary: Peter Brooks on “Viewpoint Diversity”
Can compulsory ideas contribute to the pursuit of knowledge?
Oct 22
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Review: James Fallows on William F. Buckley, Jr.
A life of urbanity and charm, that paved the way for much that is dark and destructive in our time
Oct 1
11
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Review: John Banville, Roger Shattuck and the “Wild Boy of Aveyron“
The forest boy who challenged enlightenment tenets about what it means to be human
Sep 24
13
Review: Allen Callahan on Augustine the African
A new book offers insight on how Christianity coalesced around the imperial center
Sep 17
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Science and Nature
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Review: Tracy Daugherty on Peter Matthiessen
When cataloguing a subject’s contradictions reveals more than the biographer intends
Oct 29
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Review: Joy Williams on Edward Abbey and Ecotage
The book that made other environmental movements look timid, ineffectual, compromising, and dull, and its inheritors
Jul 30
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Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”
A river is a tissue of dynamic and intimate relationships between arrowing, seeping, even air-wafted water and the land around, and the creatures within…
Jul 2
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Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, The Kind of Gardener I Am Not
Encountering "the grandness of a living member of the vegetable kingdom blooming without wanting to be cared about by me or anyone who came before me"
Mar 9
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Diary: Laura Marris, on Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab
As a child, I became fascinated with limulus and the way they carry other species, becoming itinerant microcosms of aquatic invertebrate life
Jul 14, 2024
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