Japanese folding screen depicting a scene from the Tale of the Heike, seventeenth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary Griggs Burke Collection, gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015.

Memory

Volume XIII, Number 1 | winter 2020

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The Remembered Past

Lewis H. Lapham

Pale Ink

Ed Park

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

Anne Michaels

In This Is All

Jim Holt

The Sensitive Plant

Virginia Morell

Map

Once Upon a Time

Miscellany

But it was all a dream.

We are Groot.

Pay me what you owe me.

The giver.

Memories are made into this.

Total recall.

Tomorrow dies.

Horse sense.

Lucky seven.

New look, same great taste.

Mall rat.

Institutional memory.

You’ve got a friend in me.

Fade away or here to stay?

A special tense.

The claw chooses who will stay.

No brain, some gain.

The art of forgetting.

Text adherents.

Voices In Time

Last In, First Out

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Here Lies the Past

1857 | Paris

Exhumed and Exhaled

1837 | London

Photographic Memory

c. 95 | Rome

Tense and Sensibility

1896 | Paris

All Rise

1907 | Cambridge, MA

Lost Treasure

1944 | New York City

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

The Great Healer

1766 | Lincolnshire

Post-Impressionism

c. 1885 | Polatsk

Looking Back

1869 | Paris

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

1929 | Vienna

Under Oath

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Bibliophile

1345 | Durham

Product Placement

1890 | London

Guide for the Perplexed

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

The Truth Is Marching On

1871 | Arlington, VA

Caesar Lives

c. 1190 | England

Elastic Smarts

1762 | Montmorency

Sales Pitch

1857 | Mississippi River

Document Not Found

1996 | San Francisco

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

2017 | New Orleans

The Past Also Rises

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

Oblivion

1658 | Norwich

Test of Time

1751 | London

Speak, Memory

1817 | Highgate

Search Engine

1730 | Hinton

What We Choose to Know

1998 | Cape Town

All Ideas Are Secondhand

1903 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Memorable Mottoes

Lost Archives

Lab Notes

Memory Hacks

Memory Banks

Blasts from the Past

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

My First Memory

Speaking Statues

Gone but Not Forgotten

Contributors

Conversations

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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