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My Book! ‘The Idea Machine’ Is Almost Here
A Book about Books: How They Helped Create Our World and Still Shape Our Future
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Quiet Fragility: Feeling the World with Yoko Ogawa
Inside ‘The Memory Police’ ‘Mina’s Matchbox,’ and ‘The Housekeeper and the Professor’
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Open Sesame! Translators Unlock Words and Worlds
But Do They Sometimes Steer Us Wrong? Can We Know? How Much Does It Matter?
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
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What Monks Know about Focus
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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
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Why Build a Personal Library?
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Open Thread: Books in Translation?
What’s Your Favorite Book in Translation? Your Most Recent?
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Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box
The Human Self in Literature and Science: Reviewing Eric Hoel’s ‘The World Behind the World’
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‘And Lead Us Not into Distraction’
What Monks and Nuns Know about Staying Focused. Reviewing Jamie Kreiner’s ‘The Wandering Mind’
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Bookish Diversions: All the Presidents’ Books
Washington’s Radicals and Rogues, Kennedy’s Advisor, Tricky Dick, Obama’s Library, Trump’s Favs, More
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A Dream that Will Change You
Reviewing Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s Ghostly Novella ‘Baron Bagge’
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Jordan M. Poss
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No Easy Money, But What If?
Everybody’s Got an Angle: Reviewing Chester Himes’s Noir Classic ‘A Rage in Harlem’
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Open Thread: Books You’ve Been Stalling?
We All Have Books We Can’t Work up the Energy to Start
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American Mythos: Why the West Still Beckons
The Cost of Vengeance: Reviewing Aaron Gwyn’s ‘The Cannibal Owl’ and Derrick G. Jeter’s ‘Blood Touching Blood’
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Bookish Diversions: Lifetime Reader
6 Decades of Books, Nobody’s Reading—Even Though They Want to, Do Men Read Novels? More
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Letters of Note
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Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society
Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society
Ann Kennedy Smith
The Watch
The Watch
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