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Preamble

The Remembered Past

By Lewis H. Lapham

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.

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Essay

The Sensitive Plant

By Virginia Morell

The two-hundred-year search for botanical memory.

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Essay

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

By Anne Michaels

What happens when private grief becomes common experience?

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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.

Essay

Pale Ink

By Ed Park

Commonplace books and the illusions of memory.

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