Michael Dirda
The Complete Browsings
Michael Dirda’s “Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books” will be published in book form in 2015.
- A Positively, Final Appearance
- Ending Up
- Book Projects
- Money
- A Dreamer’s Tale
- Let Us Now Praise Dover Books
- Books for the Holidays
- Christmas Reading
- In Praise of Small Presses
- Poe and Baudelaire
- “I’m Done”
- Language Matters
- What’s in a Name?
- Jacques Barzun—and Others
- Oberlin
- Waving Not Drowning
- Castles in Space
- Going, Going, Gone
- Dirty Pictures
- New and Old
- Mencken Day
- Then and Now
- Charlottesville
- The Evidence in the (Book) Case
- Musical Chairs
- Thrift Stories
- Out of Print
- Aurora
- Readercon
- Wonder Books
- Hot Enough for You?
- The Fugitive
- Rocky Mountain Low
- Anthologies and Collections
- After the Golden Age
- Anglophilia
- Grades
- Cowboys and Clubmen
- Synonym Toast
- Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit!
- Memories of Marseille
- Spring Book Sales
- Twilight of an Author
- Text Mess
- Books on Books
- Scribble, Scribble
- This Is a Column
- Paper
- Bookish Pets
- Armchair Adventures
- Style Is the Man
- Mr. Zinsser, I Presume
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
One Road
By Donald Hall
Now that it’s August, everyone seems to be on vacation. But if you’re still at the office—or someplace you’d rather not be—read Donald Hall’s essay from our Spring 2013 issue to satisfy your wanderlust: a remembrance of the poet’s honeymoon journey from England to Greece, through the backroads of postwar Yugoslavia.
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Drunks: An American History
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