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Review: Brianna Zimmerman on Al-Andalus
A real place and a real time that lingers in art and memory
Feb 11
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Diary: Laura Kolb, “Sing, Notes”
Venturing into the Iliad with new students and Emily Wilson’s notes
Feb 5
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Notebook: (2) Some Men Reading
Who is entitled to an audience, vs. how one earns it
Feb 2
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Ann Kjellberg
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Letter to Readers
Feb 19, 2025
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: J. M. Coetzee, (1) Mother Tongue
May 7, 2025
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Notebook: How Do Your Novels Grow?
Jan 26, 2025
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Back at the Wheel
Mar 19, 2025
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Susan Choi
Jun 19, 2025
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Notebook: Books Are Dead! Long Live Books!
May 12, 2024
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Diary: Laura Kolb, “Sing, Notes”
Venturing into the Iliad with new students and Emily Wilson’s notes
Feb 5
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Review: Anthony Domestico on James Schuyler
Finding a still place in a disordered life
Jan 21
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Review: Jason Mott on a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations”
An accidental masterpiece and a companion in hard times
Jan 7
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Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter
Three scenes from Scottish midwinter
Dec 17, 2025
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Diary: Jason Allen-Paisant, Plants and Dreaming
Did I know the concept of “getting bored”? The unhurried rhythm of the farm and poetry
Dec 10, 2025
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Notebook: (2) Some Men Reading
Who is entitled to an audience, vs. how one earns it
Feb 2
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (1) Some Men Reading
Reading in a way that makes people feel like they are a part of something
Feb 1
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Ann Kjellberg
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Meet Our Winter 2025–26 Partner Bookstore! Baldwin & Co
“Read read read. Never stop reading” —James Baldwin
Nov 30, 2025
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Notebook: (2) Some Men Reading
History and society
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Review: Brianna Zimmerman on Al-Andalus
A real place and a real time that lingers in art and memory
Feb 11
6
Diary: Michael Robbins on the Uses of Bad Writing
The flimsiness of the book’s thesis gives it a crazy energy, mirrored in its over-the-top prose
Jan 28
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Review: James Hatch on David Nasaw’s “The Wounded Generation”
A rare commodity in World War II literature: unvarnished reality
Jan 14
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Review: Jason Mott on a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations”
An accidental masterpiece and a companion in hard times
Jan 7
14
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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, 2025
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Science and Nature
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Review: Christian Caryl Among the Amur Tigers
A new book on saving the tigers of Russia’s far east
Nov 20, 2025
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Review: Tracy Daugherty on Peter Matthiessen
When cataloguing a subject’s contradictions reveals more than the biographer intends
Oct 29, 2025
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Review: Joy Williams on Edward Abbey and Ecotage
The book that made other environmental movements look timid, ineffectual, compromising, and dull, and its inheritors
Jul 30, 2025
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Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”
A river is a tissue of dynamic and intimate relationships between arrowing, seeping, even air-wafted water and the land around, and the creatures within…
Jul 2, 2025
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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, 2025
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