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Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on C. F. Ramuz
I came upon this book‘s 1944 edition on my parents’ bookshelves when I was around eleven, attracted irresistibly by its doom-laden prologue …
Aug 6
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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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Diary: (2) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
Marina Warner has come to believe that we can’t live without the imaginative structures of myths and folktales, we absolutely need them, and she wonders…
Jul 25
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Diary: (2) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
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Diary: (1) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
Serious readers once disparaged fairy tales and folklore as childish preoccupations but one reader came to see them as the building blocks of a communal…
Jul 23
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Review: Christian Caryl on Elaine Pagels and Paula Fredriksen
The Greatest Show on Earth: How early Christianity conquered the world
Jul 16
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Diary: Jean McGarry, New glasses
Reading Svetlana Alpers , studying Van Gogh and Vermeer, and getting new glasses
Jul 9
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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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Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”
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June 2025
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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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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Announcing Our Summer 2025 Partner Bookstore: Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama!
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