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Sunday, June 02, 2019

Left / right

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Sunday morning reservoir views.
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Monday, May 13, 2019

"Mala Cosa" (Cabeza de Vaca)

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The Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca recounts an incident that was related to him by Native Americans he encountered during his l...

Ouch

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Jeopardy clue: "John & Priscilla Alden lie in the U.S.A.'s oldest maintained cemetery, which like a poem about the couple, is ...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

On Ants (Thomas Bewick)

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"The history and œconomy of these vary curious Insects are (I think) not well known — they appear to manage all their Affairs, with as ...

On Being Alone

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"As the lodges afforded so little shelter, people began to die, and five Christians quartered on the coast were driven to such extremit...
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Friday, May 03, 2019

An Existential Necessity (Luc Sante)

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The Paris Review has inaugurated a new blog, Pinakothek . Written by Luc Sante , it's devoted to "miscellaneous visual strata of ...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Hera

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Her sons are out of college and living lives of their own by the time her husband leaves. She could stay on in the house but every room has ...
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Monday, April 08, 2019

Notes for a Commonplace Book (24): Temporary Separateness

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Alice Munro: This lucky woman, Joan, with her job and her lover and her striking looks—more remarked upon now than ever before in her life...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

Music Notes: "Idumea"

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Charles Wesley, one of the founding fathers of Methodism, is said to have penned some 6,500 hymns, among them "Hark, the Herald Ange...
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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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