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Review: Barry Yourgrau on Virgilio Piñera
Author of wildly fanciful, joyously grotesque stories, poet, novelist, insatiably polemical critic, literary provocateur whose work blasted modernism…
Mar 11
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Diary: Laurie Hertzel, A Reading Life
The basement book room became my sanctuary, one of the few places in the house where it was quiet
Mar 5
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Notebook: Where the Readers Are
A generation resists isolation and alienation through books
Mar 1
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Ann Kjellberg
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February 2026
Review: David Alff on Abundance
A scholar of infrastructure looks at prescriptions for building
Feb 25
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Diary: Noah Simon, A Chestnut Civilization
Eight chestnut farmers in New York visit centuries-old chestnut trees along the “Olive Road”
Feb 18
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Review: Brianna Zimmerman on Al-Andalus
A real place and a real time that lingers in art and memory
Feb 11
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Diary: Laura Kolb, “Sing, Notes”
Venturing into the Iliad with new students and Emily Wilson’s notes
Feb 5
15
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Notebook: (2) Some Men Reading
Who is entitled to an audience, vs. how one earns it
Feb 2
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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
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Ann Kjellberg
16
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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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