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

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

Anne Michaels

The Sensitive Plant

Virginia Morell

Pale Ink

Ed Park

Map

Once Upon a Time

Miscellany

The art of forgetting.

We are Groot.

Pay me what you owe me.

Lucky seven.

Fade away or here to stay?

Mall rat.

But it was all a dream.

Horse sense.

Total recall.

No brain, some gain.

The claw chooses who will stay.

A special tense.

Institutional memory.

Text adherents.

Tomorrow dies.

You’ve got a friend in me.

The giver.

Memories are made into this.

New look, same great taste.

Voices In Time

Caesar Lives

c. 1190 | England

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

Last In, First Out

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Exhumed and Exhaled

1837 | London

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

2017 | New Orleans

Search Engine

1730 | Hinton

Oblivion

1658 | Norwich

The Great Healer

1766 | Lincolnshire

Speak, Memory

1817 | Highgate

The Truth Is Marching On

1871 | Arlington, VA

Looking Back

1869 | Paris

All Rise

1907 | Cambridge, MA

Product Placement

1890 | London

Tense and Sensibility

1896 | Paris

Lost Treasure

1944 | New York City

What We Choose to Know

1998 | Cape Town

Elastic Smarts

1762 | Montmorency

Under Oath

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

1929 | Vienna

Document Not Found

1996 | San Francisco

All Ideas Are Secondhand

1903 | New York City

The Past Also Rises

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

Guide for the Perplexed

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

Test of Time

1751 | London

Bibliophile

1345 | Durham

Post-Impressionism

c. 1885 | Polatsk

Sales Pitch

1857 | Mississippi River

Here Lies the Past

1857 | Paris

Photographic Memory

c. 95 | Rome

Charts and Graphs

Memorable Mottoes

Lab Notes

Gone but Not Forgotten

Speaking Statues

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Blasts from the Past

Lost Archives

Memory Hacks

Memory Banks

My First Memory

Contributors

Conversations

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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