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Notebook: (1) Prison Writing, Prison Reading
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Review: Christopher Benfey on the Stevensons
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Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, A Letter to Robinson Crusoe
Notebook: 1. Isn’t it romantic?
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Notebook: Freedom and Kindness
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Notebook: (1) Sensitivity
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Fiction and literature

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Guest Notebook: Roland Allen on the Birth of the Notebook
How the humble notebook greased the wheels of learning and literature
Review: Dorothy Parker on Benito Mussolini, author
Signor Benito Mussolini, back in the days when he was wearing white shirts, if any, wrote a book
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Review: Marina Warner on Margaret Atwood
It is the deep function of a fairy tale, even the most merciless stories of cruelty and revenge, to hold out a belief in change
Diary: (2) Donna Seaman, “River of Books”
My parents, Bronx high-school sweethearts, were ardent readers. My father, who dropped out at age fifteen to work, schooled himself in libraries and on…
Review: Anthony Domestico, Poetry on TV
How to convince people who think they don’t like poetry that there might be something in it for them?
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Ann’s Notebooks

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Notebook: Libraries and the Election
by Ann Kjellberg, editor Are we fighting over the First Amendment, or something more?
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Ann Kjellberg
Notebook: Opinion
by Ann Kjellberg, editor
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (2) Translation
What translation we have depends on small publishers operating on the near side of ruin most of the time
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Notebook: Libraries and the Election

History and society

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Diary: Barry Yourgrau, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Chronicler of mess
An anthropologist and archivist of populist “low” culture—a radically open-hearted and democratic but acutely discerning advocate, preservationist, and…
Review: Jesse Donaldson on Foxfire’s Appalachia
Revisiting our post on the political uses of nostalgia
Review: Irena Grudzińska Gross on Displaced Persons
Several million displaced East Europeans were resettled at the end of World War II. How did that happen?
Guest Notebook: Roland Allen on the Birth of the Notebook
How the humble notebook greased the wheels of learning and literature
Review: Yasmine El Rashidi on Sonallah Ibrahim & Ahmed Naji
An Arabic literary convention of the literary diary both rings with the present and speaks from the past

Science and Nature

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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
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Review: Brian Fagan on an Island Atlas
As islands lose their terrestrial configurations, the remembered and the imaginary, as well as science and nature, come together to define them
Review: (2) Charles Graeber, New books on altered states
Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes is a revelatory journey through identity and colonialism, power and class, appetite and addiction; George Fisher’s Beware…
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Review: (1) Charles Graeber, New books on altered states
LSD, a psychoplastogen developed in the 1940s in Switzerland, arrived on the cusp great changes for humanity and the sciences.
Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, Entries from an Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
C is for cotton (Gossypium), a member of the mallow family, which also includes okra, hollyhock, and cacao or cocoa. Cotton has been used to weave into…
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