Archive

Everything, newest first, one line per essay. The plain list is the correct technology for archives.

2026

• May 11 A Reader’s Guide to Doing Nothing
• Feb 9 Against Summary

2025

• Dec 31 Two Years of The Marginal Note
• Sep 4 What We Talk About When We Talk About Voice
• Jul 22 Libraries as Third Places
• Jun 16 The Afternoon I Stopped Multitasking
• Apr 28 Rereading Woolf: The Waves at Forty
• Mar 14 Marginalia of Strangers: A Field Guide
• Feb 19 The Sentence as a Unit of Care
• Jan 27 E-Readers, Ten Years On

2024

• Dec 30 Reading in the Dark Months
• Nov 3 The Quiet Web
• Oct 8 Review: Playground, by Richard Powers
• Sep 12 My Grandmother’s Dictionary
• Aug 21 In Defense of Difficult Books
• Jul 15 Letters I Never Sent
• Jun 24 The Tyranny of the To-Be-Read Pile
• May 30 Review: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
• May 2 Second-Hand Inscriptions
• Apr 9 Walking as Punctuation
• Mar 18 Translation and Its Discontents
• Feb 8 Review: The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut
• Jan 19 On Reading Slowly

2023

• Dec 28 A Year of Reading, Loosely Counted
• Dec 3 What the Library Knew
• Nov 5 Against the Infinite Scroll
• Oct 17 Rereading Middlemarch in October
• Sep 21 Notes on a Commonplace Book
• Sep 2 The Bookstore at Closing Time
• Aug 14 Why I Still Write in the Margins