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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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Douglas Bauer on Julie Otsuka
Harking back to a book that may be speaking to us now in new ways
Jun 25
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Susan Choi
Susan Choi’s novel begins with actual flashlights, and it goes on restlessly to search the darkness with beams of light and awareness
Jun 19
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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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Back at the Wheel
Mar 19
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: How Do Your Novels Grow?
Jan 26
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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: (1) Translation
Oct 13, 2024
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Ann Kjellberg
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Douglas Bauer on Julie Otsuka
Harking back to a book that may be speaking to us now in new ways
Jun 25
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Susan Choi
Susan Choi’s novel begins with actual flashlights, and it goes on restlessly to search the darkness with beams of light and awareness
Jun 19
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Review: Padgett Powell on “Wildcat,” a film about Flannery O'Connor
Can a movie convey the essence and the quintessence of what the author tried to do and who she was?
Jun 11
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Review: Edward Mendelson on a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries
Virginia Woolf envisioned a diary that “coalesced” into something ”composed with the aloofness of a work of art.“ Have we done it justice?
Jun 4
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Review: Edward Mendelson on a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries
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Review: David Stromberg on Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade’s novel Sons and Daughters, which was published serially in the New York Yiddish press in the 1960s and 70s, appears in English in 2025
May 28
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Announcing Our Summer 2025 Partner Bookstore: Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama!
A rambling bookstore on a busy corner refreshed by Gulf breezes welcomes visitors from all over the South and beyond
Jun 1
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: Monuments
History is not only written by victors, it is composed of what victors choose to preserve, and what they throw away
Apr 27
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (2) Dismantling the Ideas Infrastructure
As the institutions bend, the defense of intellectual integrity is left to the powerless
Mar 31
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Ann Kjellberg
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Announcing Our Summer 2025 Partner Bookstore: Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama!
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Review: Barry Yourgrau on Nellie Campobello
A tenacious young woman takes hold of history and makes it her own
May 14
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Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on ”The Third Reich of Dreams”
A journalist, prompted by her own troubled sleep, starts gathering dreams in 1933
Apr 30
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Review: Sarah Ruden on Rebecca West
A writer who could think deeply and in crazy detail about important events that were recent, imminent, or actually happening
Apr 23
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Review: Joy Williams on Studying Animal Grief
When scholarship and arrogance converge
Apr 16
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Review: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stolen Pride”
Hochschild’s is a sociology about absence and its many costs
Apr 9
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Review: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stolen Pride”
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Science and Nature
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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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Diary: Laura Marris, on Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab
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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
May 29, 2024
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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…
May 1, 2024
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