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

The Sensitive Plant

Virginia Morell

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

Anne Michaels

Pale Ink

Ed Park

In This Is All

Jim Holt

Map

Once Upon a Time

Miscellany

Institutional memory.

Fade away or here to stay?

Text adherents.

But it was all a dream.

Tomorrow dies.

Lucky seven.

No brain, some gain.

The claw chooses who will stay.

Mall rat.

Pay me what you owe me.

The art of forgetting.

Total recall.

Horse sense.

You’ve got a friend in me.

The giver.

A special tense.

New look, same great taste.

Memories are made into this.

We are Groot.

Voices In Time

Post-Impressionism

c. 1885 | Polatsk

The Truth Is Marching On

1871 | Arlington, VA

Speak, Memory

1817 | Highgate

Looking Back

1869 | Paris

The Great Healer

1766 | Lincolnshire

Elastic Smarts

1762 | Montmorency

Search Engine

1730 | Hinton

Photographic Memory

c. 95 | Rome

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

2017 | New Orleans

The Past Also Rises

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

Product Placement

1890 | London

Under Oath

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Guide for the Perplexed

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

Lost Treasure

1944 | New York City

Here Lies the Past

1857 | Paris

Exhumed and Exhaled

1837 | London

Last In, First Out

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

1929 | Vienna

Oblivion

1658 | Norwich

All Rise

1907 | Cambridge, MA

Caesar Lives

c. 1190 | England

Bibliophile

1345 | Durham

All Ideas Are Secondhand

1903 | New York City

Document Not Found

1996 | San Francisco

Sales Pitch

1857 | Mississippi River

Test of Time

1751 | London

What We Choose to Know

1998 | Cape Town

Tense and Sensibility

1896 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Blasts from the Past

Memory Hacks

Gone but Not Forgotten

Memorable Mottoes

Memory Banks

Lab Notes

Lost Archives

Speaking Statues

My First Memory

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Contributors

Conversations

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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