In Defense of the Semicolon
Eleanor Vance argues that the mark survives not out of nostalgia but because English keeps producing sentences that need exactly that much of a pause.
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What the Cartographers Left Out
Desmond Kerr on blank space as an honest technology, and on the modern habit of filling every square inch whether or not anyone has been there.
Read →Three Weeks Among the Beekeepers
Marguerite Oyelaran files from an apiary, a folding chair, and a safe distance, on the quiet economics of a hive.
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Forty years of shelving, two fires, one theft, and a firm opinion about what belongs on the reference desk after midnight.
Read →The Last Good Bridge in the County
A stone arch, a disputed budget line, and the question of what a town owes to the things it inherited.
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