Month: July 2025
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Stamp-Size Thinking (or How We Lost the Long Thought)
It’s late July in the Pacific Northwest, the time of year locals call ‘summer’ which means the rain has been rescheduled to a more convenient weekend. The tomatoes in my backyard are suspiciously green, the sunsets arrive just before bedtime, and the only thing you can count on is the distant perfume of woodsmoke. Fingers…
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A Summer of Good Intentions and Bad Attention
The Good Reader There are still readers, real ones, endangered and elusive as those peculiar souls who savor airline food. More intriguingly, there are still good readers, the kind who subscribe to the New York Review of Books, even when a New Yorker piece from last April lingers in their browser tabs like a literary…
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