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In tracing a web site from a URL from a piece of ephemera, I realized that the effort to build a community of likemindedness routed itself via belief. But when I reviewed the inspiring words, they did not reference acts … Continue reading →

From the period following Jack Layton’s death: name sticker inviting the wearer to identify as believing in love, hope and optimism. In the New Democratic Party orange … The web site referenced by the URL is now defunct but parts … Continue reading →

one of those haiku moments aided by the disposition of the longer text into couplets in the closet full of guitars and stomped hay Gillian Conoley “We Don’t Have to Share a Fate” from the book A Little More Red … Continue reading →

Alan Jacobs Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind In his book Jacobs offers a reading of Kipling’s poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” Here are two extracts from Jacobs’s book that would … Continue reading →

Akwaeke Emezi Pet But when realities diverged and you found yourself on a different path from people you used to share a path with … well. Masks were useful then; not quite lies, not quite truths. Just decisions about what … Continue reading →

Naomi S. Baron Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World Touch is obviously a critical component of reading for people using Braille. Those raised dots representing letters of the alphabet have an interesting backstory. While it was … Continue reading →

John Ota The Kitchen: A journey through history in search of the perfect design I’ve always felt that a front door holds special significance as an architectural element. It is the point of welcome. It is the place of happy … Continue reading →

Akwaeke Emezi Pet Jam, our protagonist, upon viewing pictures of angels in an old book: They were supposed to be angels, but they were terrifying; eyes filled with licking flames even as they look out form the page, armoured faces … Continue reading →

Matthew Rubery The Untold Story of the Talking Book in the chapter on Caedmon Still, there were limits to what cold be translated across media. Certain poems worked on the page alone. One of Caedmon’s album sleeves reprinted Christian Morgenstern’s … Continue reading →

I think there is an ethical drive behind this aesthetic statement: A person who does not write books, thinks much, and lives in unsatisfactory society will usually be a good letter-writer. Nietzsche Human, All Too Human And where does a … Continue reading →