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Memory

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

By Anne Michaels

What happens when private grief becomes common experience?

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Memory

In This Is All

By Jim Holt

Memory, meaning, and the self.

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Detail of Books and Scholars’ Possessions, ten-panel folding screen by an unidentified artist, early twentieth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Shelby White Gift, 2005.

Memory

Pale Ink

By Ed Park

Commonplace books and the illusions of memory.

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Memory

The Sensitive Plant

By Virginia Morell

The two-hundred-year search for botanical memory.

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