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Review: John Banville, Roger Shattuck and the “Wild Boy of Aveyron“
The forest boy who challenged enlightenment tenets about what it means to be human
Sep 24
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Review: Allen Callahan on Augustine the African
A new book offers insight on how Christianity coalesced around the imperial center
Sep 17
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Review: Sarah Ruden on Victoria Woodhull
A real-life transatlantic woman whom Henry James couldn’t have made up with the help of peyote
Sep 10
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Fiction and literature
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Review: Michael Robbins on “Bomarzo”
A literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color.
Sep 3
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Review: Robert Lee Williams on Astrid Roemer
Bedlam Claims Many St*ars
Aug 27
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Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on C. F. Ramuz
I came upon this book‘s 1944 edition on my parents’ bookshelves when I was around eleven, attracted irresistibly by its doom-laden prologue …
Aug 6
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Diary: (2) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
Marina Warner has come to believe that we can’t live without the imaginative structures of myths and folktales, we absolutely need them, and she wonders…
Jul 25
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Diary: (1) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
Serious readers once disparaged fairy tales and folklore as childish preoccupations but one reader came to see them as the building blocks of a communal…
Jul 23
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Ann’s Notebooks
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Announcing Our Fall 2025 Partner Bookstore: (2) The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky!
Bookselling is like a farm
Sep 1
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Ann Kjellberg
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Announcing Our Fall 2025 Partner Bookstore: (I) The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky!
Culture and agriculture
Aug 31
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Ann Kjellberg
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Announcing Our Summer 2025 Partner Bookstore: Page & Palette in Fairhope, Alabama!
A rambling bookstore on a busy corner refreshed by Gulf breezes welcomes visitors from all over the South and beyond
Jun 1
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Ann Kjellberg
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History and society
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Review: John Banville, Roger Shattuck and the “Wild Boy of Aveyron“
The forest boy who challenged enlightenment tenets about what it means to be human
Sep 24
11
Review: Allen Callahan on Augustine the African
A new book offers insight on how Christianity coalesced around the imperial center
Sep 17
10
Review: Sarah Ruden on Victoria Woodhull
A real-life transatlantic woman whom Henry James couldn’t have made up with the help of peyote
Sep 10
10
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Review: Alexandra Lange on Shade
An urgent civic need, too long in the shadows
Aug 20
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Review: Andrew Katzenstein on J. Hoberman and the 1960s Avant-Garde
The clash between unfeeling, self-righteous authority and the aspiration for the liberation of the American soul
Aug 13
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Science and Nature
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Review: Joy Williams on Edward Abbey and Ecotage
The book that made other environmental movements look timid, ineffectual, compromising, and dull, and its inheritors
Jul 30
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Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”
A river is a tissue of dynamic and intimate relationships between arrowing, seeping, even air-wafted water and the land around, and the creatures within…
Jul 2
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Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, The Kind of Gardener I Am Not
Encountering "the grandness of a living member of the vegetable kingdom blooming without wanting to be cared about by me or anyone who came before me"
Mar 9
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Diary: Laura Marris, on Limulus polyphemus, the Atlantic horseshoe crab
As a child, I became fascinated with limulus and the way they carry other species, becoming itinerant microcosms of aquatic invertebrate life
Jul 14, 2024
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Review: Brian Fagan on an Island Atlas
As islands lose their terrestrial configurations, the remembered and the imaginary, as well as science and nature, come together to define them
May 29, 2024
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