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Join NOW!Over at The Oyster Review, our very own Rumblr editor Molly McArdle has composed a lovely essay about how rereading old books is a journey back to the past. She writes: The books I revisited were all fantastical and all had reached me in my late childhood. There is certainly pleasure and escape in them, but […]
...moreHow do we reread and is it necessary? Tim Parks demystifies the art of going back to a text for the third, fourth and fifth time.
...moreThink about the books you’ve come back to again and again. Now, think about how many of those were reread during your childhood and teenage years. Come to think of it, when was the last time you had time to pick up an old favorite? This is the question preoccupying Clay Risen over at the […]
...more“I think about forgotten gestures, the multiple signals and words of grandparents, lost little by little, not inherited, fallen one after the other from the tree of time. “Tonight I found a candle on a table, and as a game I lit it and walked along the corridor with it. The breeze stirred up by […]
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