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How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
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Mock Orange

Louise Glück
Poetry

Vespers

Louise Glück
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To a Friend in Time of Trouble

Thom Gunn
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The Hug

Thom Gunn

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Propaganda poster of Leon Trotsky
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Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky
December 1, 1933
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
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Street Haunting: A London Adventure

Virginia Woolf
October 1, 1927
A painting of a woman reading at a table.
From the Archives

How Should One Read a Book?

Read as if one were writing it
Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1926