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

The Sensitive Plant

Virginia Morell

In This Is All

Jim Holt

Mortal Soul, Moral Soul

Anne Michaels

Map

Once Upon a Time

Miscellany

The art of forgetting.

You’ve got a friend in me.

Memories are made into this.

Mall rat.

No brain, some gain.

We are Groot.

The claw chooses who will stay.

Text adherents.

Pay me what you owe me.

Tomorrow dies.

Institutional memory.

Total recall.

Horse sense.

A special tense.

The giver.

But it was all a dream.

New look, same great taste.

Fade away or here to stay?

Lucky seven.

Voices In Time

Speak, Memory

1817 | Highgate

Post-Impressionism

c. 1885 | Polatsk

The Past Also Rises

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

Last In, First Out

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

1929 | Vienna

Under Oath

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Bibliophile

1345 | Durham

Lost Treasure

1944 | New York City

Sales Pitch

1857 | Mississippi River

Here Lies the Past

1857 | Paris

The Great Healer

1766 | Lincolnshire

The Truth Is Marching On

1871 | Arlington, VA

Caesar Lives

c. 1190 | England

All Ideas Are Secondhand

1903 | New York City

Search Engine

1730 | Hinton

Document Not Found

1996 | San Francisco

Elastic Smarts

1762 | Montmorency

Exhumed and Exhaled

1837 | London

All Rise

1907 | Cambridge, MA

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

2017 | New Orleans

Product Placement

1890 | London

What We Choose to Know

1998 | Cape Town

Guide for the Perplexed

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

Photographic Memory

c. 95 | Rome

Tense and Sensibility

1896 | Paris

Test of Time

1751 | London

Looking Back

1869 | Paris

Oblivion

1658 | Norwich

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

Charts and Graphs

Memory Hacks

Lab Notes

My First Memory

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Memory Banks

Speaking Statues

Blasts from the Past

Memorable Mottoes

Gone but Not Forgotten

Lost Archives

Contributors

Conversations

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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