Let us bother the librarian once again . Let us ask him to reach down, dust, and hand over to us that little brown book over…
There’s an attention to season in this cookbook that is absent even from a California farmers’ market. To…
I had a song stuck in my head this morning. Thankfully I don’t remember it now. Songs like this come…
Books bring people together. It’s easy to picture a solitary reader, wrapped around an open book, the outside world…
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…
Dictionary, dik’shun-a-re. s. a book containing the words of any language, a vocabulary.
Why do we need to name? What do we gain by calling a bird a vireo? Or an early printed book an incunabulum? Why does anyone need…
Since the rise of silent reading in the tenth century, books have promised private experiences. We may later convene with other readers who…
Books talk to us. The voices we hear will vary. Hearing your own inner voice is like catching your shadow by the hand. Sometimes…