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Diary: Stephen Mortland, (2) Reading Akutagawa
Akutagawa wrote, in the margins of one of his manuscripts, of one of his characters, that his tragedy was that he endeavored to be great but found…
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Diary: Stephen Mortland, (1) Reading Akutagawa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's last novel, Kappa, is out in a new edition from New Directions, but Stephen Mortland has been thinking about it for a while.
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Diary: Hagith Sivan, Street Literacy
A historian tries to read history as it happens; Democacy protests in Isarel
Review: Michael Robbins on Wild Souls
Recent books demonstrate how impossible we have made it for nonhuman animals to live as they know how to, but our bromides will not save them.
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Guest Notebook: Back to School special! (2) A little history of American math books
by Robert Rosenfeld The first book on arithmetic to draw on children's natural ability and experience of the world, influenced by ideas from Rousseau…
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Guest Notebook: Back to School special! (1) A little history of American math books
by Robert Rosenfeld The humble math textbook has so much to tell about learning in America! Our first math book was printed in Mexico City in 1556. For…
Middlemarch, Adieu!
A good-bye and till-soon from Ann, Book Post‘s editor
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Jean McGarry, My Dark Room
A new study on 17th- and 18th-century spaces for solitude and reflection poses the question: can a place of imagination be a real place?
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Detroit’s Source Booksellers: Our Fall 2023 Bookselling Partner
Janet Webster Jones began by selling books "across the table" around her community and has created a refuge of reading and learning for her city and…
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Ann Kjellberg
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Middlemarch: Finale
A great reading experience can be like a love affair or a journey—it lives on in memory and in our lives, it touches the way we understand our own…
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Mona Simpson
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Diary: Sven Birkerts, 35 Magnolia
What I do remember of that first apartment together, with perfect clarity, is waiting for the mail.
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August 2023
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