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Mark as Read

A weekly column from Molly Templeton on the culture of reading — covering everything from what we read and why, to the ways we organize our bookshelves.

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Close-up photo of a pile of wrapped gift boxes

The Art of Buying Books for Other People

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Comment number: 10
Portrait de Marguerite (The Reader) by Henri Matisse, 1906

What Keeps You Reading?

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Comment number: 26
Photo of tall bookshelves in the Trinity College library

The Accidental Completionist

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Photo of multiple stacks of books with the top and left portion of the picture heavily in shadow

There Comes a Time in Every Reader’s Life When You Have to Move the Books

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Comment number: 35
photo of a fountain pen writing

Form, Function, and the Sentences We Collect

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Comment number: 9
Close-up photo of a pile of wrapped gift boxes

The Art of Buying Books for Other People

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Comment number: 10
Portrait de Marguerite (The Reader) by Henri Matisse, 1906

What Keeps You Reading?

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Comment number: 26
Photo of tall bookshelves in the Trinity College library

The Accidental Completionist

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Comment number: 4
Photo of multiple stacks of books with the top and left portion of the picture heavily in shadow

There Comes a Time in Every Reader’s Life When You Have to Move the Books

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Comment number: 35
photo of a fountain pen writing

Form, Function, and the Sentences We Collect

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Comment number: 9
Painting of a bearded man hunched over a desk or table, reading a paper with his right hand to his forehead

(It’s Not) The Death of Criticism (Again)

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Comment number: 3
Photo of a shelf with stacks of paperback books

We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks

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Comment number: 42
Photo of book store shelves seen through a circular frame of books; an open book is suspended in midair in the center of the photo

The Thing You Want to Read Is Out There (Probably)

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Comment number: 10
Watercolor sketch depicting two children on stage, performing for an audience of four other children.

The Theater Kids at the End of the World

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Comment number: 6
High contrast photo of a book with gold pages

Magic Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

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Comment number: 27
Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) stand together during the final scene of Rogue One: A Star Aars Story

It’s Okay to Know Where the Story Is Going

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Comment number: 14
Black and white silhouette illustration of a young woman reading at a table piled with additional books

Pace Yourself

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Comment number: 10
Photo of an open book with extra letters spilling from the pages

Tell Me a Differently Shaped Story: SFF That Plays With Form

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Comment number: 39
Impressionist style painting of a woman seated in a chair reading a book (Detail from "Woman Reading" by Torajiro Kojima, c. 1921)

Taking the “Shoulds” Out of Reading

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Comment number: 13
Cover of Boon's Geillustreerd Magazijn (Boon's Illustrated Magazine) No. 7, depicting a woman reading a magazine with an illustration of herself on the cover reading a magazine. Art by Johann Georg van Caspel, c. 1899-1909

Reading Writing About Reading and Writing

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Comment number: 7
Oil painting of a young girl sleeping with her head resting on an open book

Trying and Failing to Figure Out “Escapism” in Books

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Comment number: 15
Photo of block letters, numbers, and symbols used in printing.

Small Press SFF Might Sometimes Be Harder to Find — But It’s More Than Worth the Effort

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Comment number: 17
Photo of an open book with its central pages folded in to form a heart

It’s a Really Good Time to Get Loud About the Books You Love

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Comment number: 8
abstract painting of a seated woman reading a book next to a table with books, papers, a bottle and glass, and a vase of flowers

A Modest Request for a Little More Genre Chaos

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Comment number: 8
Painting of a woman sitting on a lawn with a parasol and a book

In Praise of Things Being Just Plain Good

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Comment number: 14

“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness

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