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Reading
A short history of complaining in the margins
Readers have been leaving grumpy notes in books for as long as there have been margins to leave them in.
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The specific kind of loss in translation
Not the vague loss people invoke, but a specific, describable kind: the loss of a choice the author didn't get to make…
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A book I clearly did not read at eleven
I could describe the plot in detail. I could not, it turned out, actually tell you what the book was about.