Re-reading.
On the books you have already read
Two years into this project, we found ourselves doing the same thing from the beginning: going back. Not discovering, not filing away — returning. To the same Calvino paragraph, the same Sebald walk along the same English coast, the margin note one left in 2017 and no longer entirely recognised.
Re-reading is the defining act of a serious reader, and it is rarely theorised as such. The dominant frame of cultural criticism is the first encounter — the discovery, the intake. This issue examined the second and third and seventh encounters, and what changes with each.
The marginalia are the record. Where you marked something at twenty-three, and where you marked it at thirty-one, and whether the marks are in the same place.
- 01 The re-reading route forthcoming Mira Asai · Founding editorPathway
- 02 One region, in re-reading forthcoming Mira Asai · Field noteRegion
- 03 Re-reading, in passing Mira Asai · From the editorDispatch
- 04 A slow re-read on Calvino, Sebald The room · Group readingReading room
- 05 the marginalia · thread The Editors · CartographyField map
- Calvino
- Sebald
- the marginalia
Cites
- Pathway Slow reading — re-reading as the pathway’s animating practice On the books one reads in fragments
- Work The Magic Mountain — anchor work for the re-reading issue Thomas Mann · 1924 · Novel
Cited by
Nothing has cited this yet.
The archive is long. Four contemporary rooms.