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09/29/2022

An Ode to Perfume Strips

Makeshift bookmarks and olfactory association

by Rhoda Feng

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07/21/2022

The Inner Voice of Books

How it can direct our lives

by John Capista

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06/27/2022

The Status of the Book in the Age of Digital Media 

A trip to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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03/21/2022

May it Be So

Life in poetry

by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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03/14/2022

Lacan’s Mistake

The desire of the unconscious

by David Stromberg

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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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10/07/2021

Close Encounters With Tolstoy

War and Peace through a different lens

by Rhoda Feng

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10/04/2021

Reading the Self

Reflections on Paul Auster's City of Glass

by Matthew Duffus

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08/12/2021

Riffing the Prose

What Toni Morrison's Jazz did for jazz, and vice versa

by Colin Fleming

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05/24/2021

Books and Bias

Rediscovering the writing and ideologies in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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