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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Girls on the Bridge (Derek Mahon)

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I found a copy of this chapbook on the giveaway shelf in our local library and brought it home, knowing only that the author, Derek Mahon,...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Transcendental

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A quick hopscotch from Sonny Rollins to Lope de Vega and back again. When I think of Sonny Rollins the first thing that comes to mind isn...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Views of Iceland (Updated)

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Fourteen years ago, during a week in Iceland, I visited the Listasafn Íslands (National Gallery of Iceland), which was then housing an exhib...
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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Notebook: Chloe Dalton

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It's become a bit of a commonplace in contemporary natural history memoirs that the subject can't only be the natural world; there h...
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Notebook: The Use of Learning

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Henry Fielding: Booth, as the reader may be pleased to remember, was a pretty good master of the classics; for his father, though he desig...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Notebook: The Green Children

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Thomas Keightley: "Another wonderful thing," says Ralph of Coggeshall, "happened in Suffolk, at St. Mary's of the Wolf-...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Wild Thing

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I found this tiny red eft in the street in front of our house one rainy morning a few days ago. It was torpid and I didn't much like its...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Note and Queries (Borges)

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I've probably read Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" at least a half-dozen times over the years...
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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...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Tales Told Twice

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In the 1980s, with his international reputation secured, Gabriel García Márquez agreed to write a series of brief syndicated essays that app...
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...
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