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Review: Ange Mlinko on Emily Dickinson‘s letters
The letters show what's missing from the "eidolons we’ve fashioned to stand in for the woman. Rather than sybilline and shy, she was witty and wily.“
Apr 23
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Spring Partner Bookseller: (2) City Lights in San Francisco!
My faith in the reader is profound, says bookseller Paul Yamazaki. Readers explore, invest time and curiosity. In browsing they become aware of their…
Apr 20
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Spring Partner Bookseller: (1) City Lights in San Francisco!
Founded at the heart of a literary movement in 1950s San Francisco, City Lights, in the loving care of Paul Yamazaki, remains a place of invention
Apr 19
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Review: Allen Callahan on “God’s Ghostwriters”
Writing down and reading out the literature of the Roman Empire was work. Moss shows that the essential workers of ancient literature were frequently…
Apr 16
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Review: Anthony Domestico on J. Robert Lennon
A new mystery from a writer who often refuses to finish the narrative puzzles he sets up and can be more interested in clues than their solutions
Apr 12
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Review: Anakana Schofield on Zito Madu
"Literature is a good sorting office," writes Anakana Schofield about the bracingly original way this new memoir confronts and absorbs the pain and…
Apr 9
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Notebook: Unevenly Distributed
by Ann Kjellberg, editor In a week with news in the usually hidden world of book distribution, we take a look inside how it works and what it means
Apr 5
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Review: David Alff on road ecology
The word “crossing” refers both to the act of meeting another’s path and the place where that happens. In our vehicularized modernity, crossings have…
Apr 3
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Diary: Sumana Roy, Do Trees Laugh?
A recent discovery that plants "cry" when harmed reminds the author of a pioneering mid-century researcher into vegetal feelings
Mar 29
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Review: Julia Preston on an epic account of Central American immigration
A new book considers the consequences that US foreign policy in three small countries has had on immigration and social dynamics here
Mar 26
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Notebook: (2) Mr. Smith and Goliath
by Ann Kjellberg, editor. How long can the internet remain a repository of trustworhy information and ideas? What would it take to keep them there?
Mar 23
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Notebook: (1) Mr. Smith and Goliath
by Ann Kjellberg, editor. On a recent rash of Supreme Court arguments, FTC and DOJ cases, European regulations, and more affecting speech and expression…
Mar 22
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