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

A special tense.

Horse sense.

No brain, some gain.

Total recall.

Mall rat.

Pay me what you owe me.

But it was all a dream.

We are Groot.

The claw chooses who will stay.

The giver.

New look, same great taste.

Fade away or here to stay?

Institutional memory.

Tomorrow dies.

Lucky seven.

The art of forgetting.

Memories are made into this.

Text adherents.

You’ve got a friend in me.

Voices In Time

Tense and Sensibility

1896 | Paris

All Ideas Are Secondhand

1903 | New York City

Last In, First Out

1890 | Cambridge, MA

Caesar Lives

c. 1190 | England

Elastic Smarts

1762 | Montmorency

Lost Treasure

1944 | New York City

Speak, Memory

1817 | Highgate

What We Choose to Know

1998 | Cape Town

Mitch Landrieu Takes History Off a Pedestal

2017 | New Orleans

Test of Time

1751 | London

Oblivion

1658 | Norwich

The Past Also Rises

c. 1832 | Middlemarch

Exhumed and Exhaled

1837 | London

Guide for the Perplexed

2018 | Menlo Park, CA

Document Not Found

1996 | San Francisco

The Truth Is Marching On

1871 | Arlington, VA

Under Oath

1920 | Plymouth, MA

Stefan Zweig Encounters a Living Lexicon

1929 | Vienna

Post-Impressionism

c. 1885 | Polatsk

All Rise

1907 | Cambridge, MA

Looking Back

1869 | Paris

Search Engine

1730 | Hinton

Bibliophile

1345 | Durham

Sales Pitch

1857 | Mississippi River

Here Lies the Past

1857 | Paris

Gene Tracy Logs On to the Memory Network

2019 | Williamsburg, VA

The Great Healer

1766 | Lincolnshire

Photographic Memory

c. 95 | Rome

Product Placement

1890 | London

Charts and Graphs

Gone but Not Forgotten

Lab Notes

Memory Banks

Memorable Mottoes

Memory Hacks

Lost Archives

Speaking Statues

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Blasts from the Past

My First Memory

Contributors

Conversations

Louis-François Ramond & Homesick Candles

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