What Is an Essay, Anyway? and Other News
A portrait of Michel de Montaigne, whom you can blame in part, maybe, for all these “essays.” Essays—essais, essayes—what are they, how are they, where did they come from, why can’t we seem to settle...
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An illustration from Junket Is Nice. New York Review Children’s Classics has reissued so many wonderful forgotten texts: novels and picture books and nursery rhymes and even the occasional cookbook....
View ArticleWhat Is an Essay, Anyway? and Other News
A portrait of Michel de Montaigne, whom you can blame in part, maybe, for all these “essays.” Essays—essais, essayes—what are they, how are they, where did they come from, why can’t we seem to settle...
View ArticleThe Junket-Eater
An illustration from Junket Is Nice. New York Review Children’s Classics has reissued so many wonderful forgotten texts: novels and picture books and nursery rhymes and even the occasional cookbook....
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