There’s an attention to season in this cookbook that is absent even from a California farmers’ market. To…
Books talk to us. The voices we hear will vary. Hearing your own inner voice is like catching your shadow by the hand. Sometimes…
Since the rise of silent reading in the tenth century, books have promised private experiences. We may later convene with other readers who…
This volume of Cicero’s Orations, including annotations in English and the original speeches in Latin, has me thinking about…
It’s becoming clear to me now that what I’m doing here is parsing. I’m parsing books — and also time. Like Zeno’s paradox: the more you…
The most prolific collector of American textbooks, John A. Nietz, asserted in 1961 that: “every one who can read has…
I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order…