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Meet Our Winter 2025–26 Partner Bookstore! Baldwin & Co
“Read read read. Never stop reading” —James Baldwin
Nov 30 • 
Ann Kjellberg
Review: Christian Caryl Among the Amur Tigers
A new book on saving the tigers of Russia’s far east
Nov 20
Review: Barry Yourgrau, A Neo-Nazi in Iceland
A mostly invented regular boy, on a dark path
Nov 14
Notebook: (2) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Fruits of literature-in-place
Nov 12 • 
Ann Kjellberg
Notebook: (1) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals
Keeping it going: The Berry Center’s Kentucky Arts and Letters Day and the Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books
Nov 11 • 
Ann Kjellberg
Review: Hugh Eakin on “Stan and Gus”
A dual biography of Stanford White and Augustus Saint-Gaudens considers art, money, friendship, and infamy
Nov 5

October 2025

Review: Tracy Daugherty on Peter Matthiessen
When cataloguing a subject’s contradictions reveals more than the biographer intends
Oct 29
Diary: Peter Brooks on “Viewpoint Diversity”
Can compulsory ideas contribute to the pursuit of knowledge?
Oct 22
Review: Anthony Domestico on Muriel Spark
A disordered perfectionist
Oct 15
Review: Tracy Daugherty on Thomas Pynchon
Stranger even than his fiction
Oct 8
Review: James Fallows on William F. Buckley, Jr.
A life of urbanity and charm, that paved the way for much that is dark and destructive in our time
Oct 1

September 2025

Notebook: Ephemera
Ephemeralists arise!
Sep 28 • 
Ann Kjellberg
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