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Review: Joy Williams on “The Uninhabitable Earth”

Mar 17Subscriber's post 2

Review: Calvin Baker on David Blight’s Frederick Douglass

Mar 12Subscriber's post 2

Notebook: The persistent idyll of the second-hand bookshop

Mar 9Public post

Review: April Bernard on Janet Malcolm

Mar 5Subscriber's post 1

Review: Robert Block on Chasing New Horizons, an update

Mar 1Subscriber's post

Diary: On the occasion of his birthday, novelist César Aira makes a plan

Feb 28Public post

Review: Elaine Blair on Lucia Berlin

Feb 26Subscriber's post

Review: Hugh Eakin on Philip Johnson

Feb 22Subscriber's post

Notebook: Amazon and the booksellers‘ valentine

Feb 16Public post 1

Review: Álvaro Enrigue on Roberto Bolaño (Part II)

Feb 14Subscriber's post

Review: Álvaro Enrigue on Roberto Bolaño (Part I)

Feb 12Subscriber's post

Diary: John Moran, Reading Florida, Finding Flannery

Feb 7Public post

Review: Hagith Sivan, How old is the Hebrew Bible?

Feb 2Subscriber's post

Review: Cynthia Zarin on Colm Toibin’s “The Empty Family”

Jan 30Subscriber's post

Notebook: January 25, 2019

Jan 25Public post 2

Review: Robert Cottrell on John McPhee

Jan 23Subscriber's post

Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, The Walk to Robert Frost‘s House

Jan 19Public post 2

Review: Judith Newman on Craig Brown‘s ”Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret“

Jan 15Subscriber's post

Review: Elliot Reed on Shane Bauer’s “American Prison”

Jan 12Subscriber's post

Notebook: Book thoughts in the age of shutdown

Jan 3Public post

2018

December 2018

Review: Adam Kirsch on “Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law”

Dec 28, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Anakana Schofield on the Secret Life of Cows

Dec 26, 2018Subscriber's post

Diary: Patricia Storace, Christmas ghosts and a treat with chestnuts

Dec 24, 2018Public post

Review: Joy Williams on Richard Powers‘ ”The Overstory”

Dec 21, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Brian Fagan on the last of the whalers

Dec 19, 2018Subscriber's post

Diary: Geoffrey O’Brien, Paris—Dream of book lovers

Dec 13, 2018Public post

Notebook: Year-end book lists, the way we read now

Dec 8, 2018Public post

Review: Padgett Powell on Peter Taylor

Dec 4, 2018Subscriber's post 1

Announcing our December partner bookseller: Greenlight!

Dec 1, 2018Public post

November 2018

Diary: Spencer Reece, Reading Hopkins

Nov 27, 2018Public post

Notebook: Happy Holidays, buy local!

Nov 23, 2018Public post

Review: Katy Simpson Smith on the wartime letters of General and Mrs. Grant

Nov 18, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: April Bernard on Angela Carter

Nov 15, 2018Subscriber's post

Diary: Kathryn Davis, On Walking

Nov 12, 2018Public post

Review: Meghan O’Gieblyn on Barbara Kingsolver’s “Unsheltered”

Nov 8, 2018Subscriber's post

Notebook: November 5, 2018

Nov 6, 2018Public post 1

Announcing Our November Partner Bookseller: Left Bank Books in St. Louis!

Nov 1, 2018Public post

October 2018

Diary: Patricia Storace, Idella’s Crisp Biscuits, a Florida recipe

Oct 31, 2018Public post

Review: Elliot Reed on Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars Room”

Oct 29, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Anakana Schofield on Jorge Carrión’s “Bookshops: A Reader’s History”

Oct 26, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Charles Simic, What is a prose poem?

Oct 24, 2018Subscriber's post

Notebook: Great American Read-a-long

Oct 22, 2018Public post

Review: Jesse Donaldson on Foxfire’s Appalachia

Oct 18, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Ruth Franklin on Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book”

Oct 16, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Christopher Benfey on hunting in America

Oct 11, 2018Subscriber's post

Diary: Meghan O’Gieblyn, On Writing the Midwest

Oct 9, 2018Public post

Review: Christian Caryl on Jeffrey Lewis’s new Doomsday

Oct 5, 2018Subscriber's post

Notebook: Meet the Small Presses

Oct 3, 2018Public post

September 2018

Review: Jane Katch on Mr. Rogers

Sep 29, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Glyn Maxwell on Edward Lear

Sep 26, 2018Subscriber's post

Notebook: September 24, 2018

Sep 24, 2018Public post

Review: Irena Grudzińska Gross on the Polish national novel, Pan Tadeusz

Sep 20, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Edward Mendelson on the history of Protestantism

Sep 17, 2018Subscriber's post

Diary: Octavio Solis, Saturdays in Juárez

Sep 14, 2018Public post 1

Review: Robert Block on Chasing New Horizons

Sep 12, 2018Subscriber's post

Review: Natalie Angier on Eugenia Cheng

Sep 10, 2018Subscriber's post

Notebook: September 4, 2018

Sep 4, 2018Public post

Review: Padgett Powell on William Trevor, a postscript

Sep 3, 2018Public post

March 2018

Coming soon

Mar 27, 2018Public post

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