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Say Your Prayers
Christopher Robin Milne with Winnie the Pooh in 1928. Christopher Robin Milne’s first two memoirs, The Enchanted Places and The Path Through the Trees, are in the canon of great ambivalence books....
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Civilization Was a Crust
From the cover of Frankweiler. Long before museums were pandering to callow visitors bearing selfie sticks, they were trying to attract young people the old-fashioned way. Any big collection worth its...
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Metaphor Map (from the Makers of Allegory Atlas), and Other News
The University of Glasgow’s Metaphor Map. Our Summer issue features illustrations by Jason Novak for the first installment of Chris Bachelder’s new novel, The Throwback Special. Now you can see them...
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The British Pathé newsreel series Personality is fascinating. Each consists of clips of the “home life” of a British celebrity of the 1940s or 1950s: artists, actors, musicians. We see them romping...
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I Tried Always to Do My Best
Lucy Maud Montgomery. Photo: KindredSpiritMichael Should you visit Google today, you’ll find that the daily “doodle” commemorates the birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery, born November 30, 1874. The...
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Fur
Quentin Blake’s illustration for Kitty-in-Boots. Image via Penguin Earlier this week, many of us were electrified by the announcement that an unpublished Beatrix Potter book, The Tale of...
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The Color of Dirty Death, and Other News
The ugliest color of them all. Start your week off right: take a long, hard look at the world’s ugliest color, Pantone 448C, aka “opaque couché.” Redolent of baby shit and capable of summoning all...
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Snorri the Seal
What a vain little seal! It’s Banned Books Week, and everyone is rallying around the classics: your Gatsbys, your Catcher in the Ryes, your Mockingbirds and Lady Chatterleys. No one is giving any love...
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’Tis Pity Such a Pretty Maid As I Should Go to Hell
From the cover of the NYRB reissue of The Fire Horse. 1 I have just closed Isaac Watts’s once-famous book of children’s poetry, Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. This...
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Michelle de Kretser and David Orr Recommend; Our Editors Remember Hilary Mantel
Gabriel Mälesskircher, Saint Guy Healing a Possessed Man, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This week, we remember Hilary Mantel (1952–2022), and bring you recommendations from two of our issue no....
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