Archive - Book Post

March 2025

Notebook: (2) Dismantling the Ideas Infrastructure

As the institutions bend, the defense of intellectual integrity is left to the powerless

Mar 31 •

Notebook: (1) Dismantling the Ideas Infrastructure

Attacks in the last ten weeks on how we create, nurture, share, and preserve ideas

Mar 30 •

Diary: W. G. Sebald on Literature after Fascism

Reckoning with a notion of “home” that demands abolishing all dissent and nuance, elevating narrow-mindedness to a universal principle

Mar 26

Back at the Wheel

Wrapping up our little pause

Mar 19 •

Review: Mona Simpson on Lewis Hyde

Giving without expectation of return, remembering in order to forget

Mar 12

Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, The Kind of Gardener I Am Not

Encountering "the grandness of a living member of the vegetable kingdom blooming without wanting to be cared about by me or anyone who came before me"

Mar 9

Review: Adam Hochschild on an Unsung Nazi Resistance

The Gestapo was usually not suspicious of middle-aged people, mostly women, who gathered to do calisthenics

Mar 5

Diary: Wendell Berry, The Writer Going Home

Embracing “the few square miles in Kentucky that were mine by inheritance and by birth and by the intimacy the mind makes with the place it awakens in”

Mar 2

February 2025

Notebook: On the Road with Bookmobiles

By mule, by bicycle, by rail, by sea, a little history of the bookmobile

Feb 26 •

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