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Friday, January 23, 2026

The Drowned Circus

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Maritime disasters have long served as inspiration for popular songs and ballads, especially when the drama of the incident is multiplied by...
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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Daddy Fox

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Last summer I chanced upon an interesting edition of the tale of Reynard the Fox in the free stuff shed in our local dump, and strangely e...
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Thursday, January 08, 2026

There was a time

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Four stanzas from the medieval Irish legend Buile Suibne , variously translated as The Frenzy of Suibhne or Sweeney Astray : There was a ti...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Does Arthur Clennam know?

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Has biographer Claire Tomalin slipped up in her account of Little Dorrit ? In Charles Dickens: A Life , she writes Arthur Clennam, the unher...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Scenes from the Life of a Planet

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This may be the first time I've ever hunted down a book based entirely on a phrase that popped into my head. I'd been thinking about...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Hawthorne in Salem

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Van Wyck Brooks: He had a painter's delight in tone. He liked to throw a ghostly glimmer over scenes that he chose b...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Pencils

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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. We found the Thoreau family plot first, and thought that maybe the offerings of writing im...
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Sunday, October 19, 2025

Autumn

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Three people I used to know fairly well at various times in my life have died this year. One was a childhood friend I hadn't seen since ...
Sunday, October 05, 2025

Ivan Klíma (1931-2025)

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The Czech writer Ivan Klíma has died; the New York Times has a full obit . Klíma has long been a favorite writer of mine, and I revisited a...
Monday, September 22, 2025

London sublime

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A few weeks back Michael Leddy at Orange Crate Art posted a passage from Henry Mayhew's The Great World of London in which Mayhew desc...
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Friday, September 12, 2025

Logbook: Porcupines (2)

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When I was out walking yesterday morning in one of my regular haunts, keeping an eye out for the deer and rabbits I often see if I arrive...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Little impalpable worlds

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: One afternoon, he was seized with an irresistible desire to blow soap-bubbles; an amusement, as Hepzibah told Ph...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Islander

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Amy Liptrot: I never saw myself as, and resist becoming, the wholesome ‘outdoors’ type. But the things I experience keep dragging me in. T...
Friday, July 11, 2025

John Martin

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The founder and former publisher of Black Sparrow Press, John Martin, has died. The Times has a nice obit by Adam Nossiter, who can be forg...
Friday, July 04, 2025

The Deceiver

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At first glance this is a typical example of the kind of cheap fiction for adolescents that was popular in the early decades of the twentiet...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Anathematizing All Islands

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Celia Thaxter: Boone Island is the forlornest place that can be imagined. The Isles of Shoals, barren as they are, seem like Gardens of Ed...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Foraging

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A cronopio out for a drive spies a cardboard box at the side of the road marked FREE. He stops and investigates. Inside the box are some pot...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

No Kings

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A few scenes from today's well-attended and upbeat demonstration in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which merged amicably with a scheduled s...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Human Geography US (Peter Blegvad & Anthony Moore)

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Someone directed my attention today to this recording from a few years back, which had somehow escaped my notice. Human Geography US presen...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Harry Mathews, re-issued

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Dalkey Archive Press / Deep Vellum Publishing is re-issuing seven books by Harry Mathews, according to Publishers Weekly , which notes that...
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