![]() War and the censure of a brutal government Robert Coles’s The ![]() Honesty, courage, loyalty, imagination-while being subjected to the terrors of The Russian poet who, from 1912 until her death in 1966, created a body of workįilled with the biggest virtues-beauty, strength, wisdom, love, sympathy, On this marvelous book later in this newsletter) the poems of Anna Akhmatova, Vagabond Path Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building (more The Days and Nights Iris Origo’s commonplace anthology, The Meaning, or aspiration: William Maxwell’s short fiction, collected in All ![]() Memory, but many that, at one point or another, embodied a present interest, Haven’t attended to with any concentration in recent, and not so recent, ![]() Reading and writing, otherwise the ambience is conducive to contemplation,Įspecially since I am surrounded by once familiar books, hundreds of volumes I To house the overflow from the shelves and piles in the living room, library,Īnd bedrooms on the floors above. Our time of surreally pleasant and preternaturally anxious lockdown, I set up aĭesk (read: cleared off the flotsam and jetsam that the tides of busy life hadĪsked up on it over the past few years) in a warren of bookcases we’d created I didn’t expect to be spending so much time in my basement this spring.ĭisplaced from my usual working space upstairs by another family member during ![]()
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