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Review: Sarah Chayes on Wade Davis

In an excerpt from her review in Book Post, Sarah Chayes follows Wade Davis as he meanders down the history of Colombia’s Magdalena River.

4 min readDec 1, 2020

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Review: Sarah Chayes on Wade Davis

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Review: Sarah Chayes on Amaryllis Fox

In an excerpt from her review for Book Post, Sarah Chayes shares what troubled her about Amaryllis Fox’s new memoir.

3 min readJan 31, 2020

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Review: Sarah Chayes on Amaryllis Fox

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Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Argentina’s Roque Larraquy

During the late fall of 1987, in the years in which the new Argentine democracy was being reshaped after a decade of brutal right-wing…

4 min readOct 1, 2019

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Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Argentina’s Roque Larraquy

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Diary: On the Occasion of His Birthday, Novelist César Aira Makes a Plan

I used to write with the sole aim of producing work of high quality: good novels, better than others, etc. The reasons for wanting to do…

3 min readSep 24, 2019

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Diary: On the Occasion of His Birthday, Novelist César Aira Makes a Plan

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Notebook: DIY Books

On April 24, 2019, at 9 AM, the owner of the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge powered up the above Rube Goldberg device, and kept it running…

4 min readSep 16, 2019

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Notebook: DIY Books

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Diary: Lucy Ellmann, On Not Going Into Bookstores

I know how impossibly brave it is to run a bookstore in this rudderless, readerless age. I applaud people for persisting with it…

4 min readSep 8, 2019

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Diary: Lucy Ellmann, On Not Going Into Bookstores

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Diary: Octavio Solis, Saturdays in Juárez

Listen to that. That’s Juárez you hear. That is where we are once a month on Saturdays. Riding along la Avenida de las Américas with that…

4 min readSep 4, 2019

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Diary: Octavio Solis, Saturdays in Juárez

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Review: Joy Williams on Richard Powers’ “The Overstory”

The novel concerns itself with our human drama — it always has. The intrigues, the misunderstandings, the passions and illusions. The…

3 min readAug 26, 2019

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Review: Joy Williams on Richard Powers’ “The Overstory”

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Diary: Meghan O’Geiblyn, on Writing the Midwest

The essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn grew up outside of Detroit. She reflects on how the Midwest became her subject even as she tried to leave it…

4 min readAug 19, 2019

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Diary: Meghan O’Geiblyn, on Writing the Midwest

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Diary: John Moran, Reading Florida, Finding Flannery

Florida is having a moment: the twenty-first century. Entering the last century as the least populated southern state, Florida’s debutante…

3 min readAug 5, 2019

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Diary: John Moran, Reading Florida, Finding Flannery

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