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The Poets of Noticing
Who to read when you're learning to pay attention
Aug 17 • 
Ellen Andrews
Book Review: So Far Gone
Jess Walter on family, redemption, and the American moment
Jul 27 • 
Ellen Andrews
On Dreaming in Stuart Little, The Great Gatsby, and The Wind in the Willows
Is it safe to re-imagine your life?
Jul 21 • 
Ellen Andrews
"Good Enough to Take into the Woods"
10 books for your next camping trip
Jun 14 • 
Ellen Andrews
On Piranesi and C.S. Lewis
What's the point of tracing allusions?
May 31 • 
Ellen Andrews
Would Jane Austen like Ender's Game?
Thoughts on what makes a good novel
May 10 • 
Ellen Andrews
On Waiting in Mansfield Park (and Lent)
Why no one wants to identify with Fanny Price, and why we do anyways
Apr 19 • 
Ellen Andrews
Book Review: The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Setting Katherine Arden among the dead
Apr 5 • 
Ellen Andrews
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