Commonplace Book

Taking Leave

By André Bernard | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel

By Cynthia Ozick | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Here’s Looking at You

By Arthur Krystal | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Love in a Box

By Andrew Hudgins | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

An Oil on Canvas

By John Updike | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Reaching Point Comfort

By Adam Goodheart | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Un Clown Biologique

By Carlo Rotella | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

The Scholar in Distant Perspective

By Jacques Barzun | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

A Skull in Varanasi, A Head in Baghdad

By Soraya van Dillen | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

The Founder of Empires

By D. Graham Burnett | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Casa Gorín

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 15, 2025

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Birthday Boy

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 8, 2025

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

By Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 6, 2025

New Year, Old Year

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 1, 2025

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday, December 30, 2024

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday, December 27, 2024

A Story for Christmas

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, December 25, 2024

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