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Friday, March 22, 2019

Customer Service Wolf

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Three installments from Anne Barnetson's droll comic about the adventures of a lupine bookshop clerk. Having served in that role for ma...
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Sunday, March 10, 2019

Berlin (Jason Lutes)

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Two brilliant pages from Jason Lutes's mammoth graphic novel set in the waning years of the Weimar Republic. Berlin is published ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

The Fear

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Ruth Otis Sawtell & Ida Treat: Our greatest adventure we found at Mérigon. Mérigon, with its face to the sunny roadside and its back to ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Compliments of the Dead

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This appealing book is the product of two American women, Ruth Otis Sawtell (1895-1978), a noted anthropologist and academic (and, later, au...
Monday, February 11, 2019

The Memory Man

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These three slender books by the Guatemalan Jewish writer Eduardo Halfon are published by Libros del Asteroide , a Barcelona-based company...
Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Roma: Words Unspoken

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I had been looking forward to seeing Alfonso Cuarón's Roma as soon as it made it to a local theatre, and it didn't disappoint. I...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Owl

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Winter can be a frustrating time for the saunterer, but now and then you get a lucky break. On a mild Sunday afternoon in January I put the...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Measureless Nights

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Winter mornings, waiting for dawn. (But then with the streetlight right outside the window it's never truly dark.) John Steinbeck and E...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Thaw

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A scene from Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War, the follow-up to his Oscar-winning Ida from five years ago, which was one of my favorite mo...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Out with the Old Year

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The committee for 2018 has officially concluded its final report. And good-bye to all that.
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Monday, December 17, 2018

Season's Greetings

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Art by Tom Gauld . Hat tip to Tororo . Update: A memorial notice published in the New York Times on December 23, 2018, may contain a refe...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Destinies

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Vera Brittain: When I was a girl at St. Monica's and in Buxton, I imagined that life was individual, one's one affair; that the eve...
Sunday, December 02, 2018

Intruders

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For a couple of years when I was a kid my father and I used to traipse through the woods on what had once been farmland, looking for old fou...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Notes for a Commonplace Book (23)

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Charles Morgan: In each instant of their lives men die to that instant. It is not time that passes away from them, but they who recede from...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Representative Man

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David W. Blight: Over more than fifty years, 1841-1894, Douglass sat for approximately 160 photographs and wrote some four essays or addr...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

The Trade (Gary Snyder)

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From Regarding Wave
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Fog

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Reservoir views, Halloween morning. The sharp-eyed may notice a passing bird or two in some of the images below.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Responsibility

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Adam Serwer, writing in The Atlantic : Ordinarily, a politician cannot be held responsible for the actions of a deranged follower. But ordin...
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Enough is Enough

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Image credit: The Dallas Holocaust Museum, via the website of Syracuse Cultural Workers, which notes, "This powerful artwork is a s...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Monk's Mood

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What to listen to when you're out driving before dawn, and the streetlights are lit up because it's never really dark anymore, and...
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