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On Rereading
The first time through a book you read to find out what happens. Every time after that, you read to find out who you were.
Footnotes Are a Form of Honesty
The footnote lets a writer admit doubt, digress, and cite a source without breaking the sentence that needed to stay clean.
A Typography Sampler
One essay, deliberately overloaded: headings, quotes, footnotes, lists, a table, and some code, in service of a single argument.
A Short History of the Serif
Why letters grew little feet, and what four centuries of stonecutters, scribes, and engineers did with them.
On the Pleasure of Slow Reading
A case for reading fewer books more slowly, on the theory that speed was never the point of a sentence.