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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Grand tour

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Tobias Smollett's novels have been on my list of things to get around to reading, so when I found this edition of The Expedition of Hump...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Reading Spanish: By Way of an Essay

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I first studied Spanish in junior high school. There were, as I remember, four languages you could select: French, Spanish, German, and Lati...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Lifespans

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The former Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski died on February 20th at the age of eighty-nine. Mazeroski, who retired as a pla...
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Monday, February 16, 2026

Patriarch

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In 1967, Gabriel García Márquez and several other Latin American writers concocted a plan for a volume in which each participant would under...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Echoes of the Boom

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Two recent publishing events revisit the phenomenon of the so-called Latin American literary "Boom" of the 1960s, in particular hi...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Monochrome

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The city is behind me. In daylight, with no lights visible, the wind and the breakers cutting off all sound, one might think it uninhabited,...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Good kids

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Scenes from a student-led anti-ICE demonstration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February 3, 2026. The demonstration began with a scheduled wa...
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