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.

Commonplace books and the illusions of memory.

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

By Anne Michaels

What happens when private grief becomes common experience?

Charts & Graphs

Blasts from the Past

Memory triggers in literature.

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Voices In Time

c. 1190 | England

Caesar Lives

Walter Map leaves room for the present.More

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Weather-Bound Books

Storms and squalls as literary devices.

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Sing to Me, O Muse

The inspirations for various works.

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Under the Influence

Drugs used during composition.

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Forbidden Knowledge

From the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books (1515–1966).

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Ups and Downs

The happiness of famous plots, graphed.

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Voices In Time

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Looking Up

Walt Whitman has a happy hour.More

Lapham’s Quarterly

Pale Ink

By Ed Park

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

By Anne Michaels

Blasts from the Past

c. 1190 | England

Caesar Lives

Weather-Bound Books

Sing to Me, O Muse

Under the Influence

Forbidden Knowledge

Ups and Downs

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Looking Up

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c. 1190 | England

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

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