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Diary: (2) Andrew Hui on the Birth of the Private Library
The Renaissance library was an aperture through which you contemplate the world and a retreat wherein you cultivate the self
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Diary: (1) Andrew Hui on the Birth of the Private Library
We gather in libraries, or take a voyage around our room, another way of gathering
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Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Antonio di Benedetto
The slim volumes that may be the greatest works of mid-century Latin American Literature
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Notebook: (2) Letting the Dogs Out
Hugely consequential tools are being built-to-order by our moment
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (1) Letting the Dogs Out
What Meta’s recently announced content moderation changes mean for writing and discourse
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: Barry Yourgrau, Three Stories
A monster is loose in the neighborhood.
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December 2024

Review: Anthony Domestico on Rachel Kushner
A spy runs up against the limits of time
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Diary with Recipe: Patricia Storace, The Appetites of Poets
What we eat and drink is a profound part of our experience and perception, a vocabulary of wishes
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Review: Michael Robbins on Nordic Noir
A thriller-reader goes out in the cold
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Notebook: (2) Small Biz
by Ann Kjellberg, editor Will the next four years see constraints on the tech behemoths that shape our information environment or a liberation of them…
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Ann Kjellberg
Notebook: (1) Small Biz
by Ann Kjellberg, editor.   While one hand enjoins readers to shop local, the other empowers Big Tech and assaults on the economy of ideas
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Sarah Ruden on Pat Barker
Refreshing update of the classics, or wishful betrayal of the past?
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