Book Post

Diary: Laura Kolb, “Sing, Notes”

Venturing into the Iliad with new students and Emily Wilson’s notes

18 hrs ago

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Notebook: (2) Some Men Reading

Who is entitled to an audience, vs. how one earns it

Feb 2 • Ann Kjellberg

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Notebook: (1) Some Men Reading

Reading in a way that makes people feel like they are a part of something

Feb 1 • Ann Kjellberg

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January 2026

Diary: Michael Robbins on the Uses of Bad Writing

The flimsiness of the book’s thesis gives it a crazy energy, mirrored in its over-the-top prose

Jan 28

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Review: Anthony Domestico on James Schuyler

Finding a still place in a disordered life

Jan 21

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Review: James Hatch on David Nasaw’s “The Wounded Generation”

A rare commodity in World War II literature: unvarnished reality

Jan 14

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Review: Jason Mott on a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations”

An accidental masterpiece and a companion in hard times

Jan 7

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December 2025

Diary: Patricia Storace, A Lilliputian Christmas Feast

Seeing the miraculous in the small

Dec 24, 2025

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Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter

Three scenes from Scottish midwinter

Dec 17, 2025

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Diary: Jason Allen-Paisant, Plants and Dreaming

Did I know the concept of “getting bored”? The unhurried rhythm of the farm and poetry

Dec 10, 2025

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November 2025

Meet Our Winter 2025–26 Partner Bookstore! Baldwin & Co

“Read read read. Never stop reading” —James Baldwin

Nov 30, 2025 • Ann Kjellberg

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Review: Christian Caryl Among the Amur Tigers

A new book on saving the tigers of Russia’s far east

Nov 20, 2025

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