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

In This Is All

Jim Holt

The Sensitive Plant

Virginia Morell

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

Anne Michaels

Pale Ink

Ed Park

Map

Once Upon a Time

Miscellany

The art of forgetting.

Horse sense.

Text adherents.

A special tense.

Total recall.

No brain, some gain.

The claw chooses who will stay.

Fade away or here to stay?

We are Groot.

Mall rat.

Institutional memory.

Pay me what you owe me.

You’ve got a friend in me.

New look, same great taste.

But it was all a dream.

Memories are made into this.

The giver.

Lucky seven.

Tomorrow dies.

Voices In Time

All Rise

1907 | Cambridge, MA

The Great Healer

1766 | Lincolnshire

Tense and Sensibility

1896 | Paris

Guide for the Perplexed

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

Speak, Memory

1817 | Highgate

Sales Pitch

1857 | Mississippi River

Photographic Memory

c. 95 | Rome

Last In, First Out

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Document Not Found

1996 | San Francisco

Elastic Smarts

1762 | Montmorency

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

2017 | New Orleans

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

Post-Impressionism

c. 1885 | Polatsk

Looking Back

1869 | Paris

Exhumed and Exhaled

1837 | London

Oblivion

1658 | Norwich

Caesar Lives

c. 1190 | England

The Truth Is Marching On

1871 | Arlington, VA

Product Placement

1890 | London

Here Lies the Past

1857 | Paris

Lost Treasure

1944 | New York City

Under Oath

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Bibliophile

1345 | Durham

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

1929 | Vienna

What We Choose to Know

1998 | Cape Town

Test of Time

1751 | London

Search Engine

1730 | Hinton

All Ideas Are Secondhand

1903 | New York City

The Past Also Rises

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

Charts and Graphs

My First Memory

Blasts from the Past

Gone but Not Forgotten

Speaking Statues

Memorable Mottoes

Memory Banks

Lost Archives

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Lab Notes

Memory Hacks

Contributors

Conversations

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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