Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her books include Loving Literature: A Cultural History (2015) and The Unfinished Book (edited with Alexandra Gillespie, 2021).
Deidre Lynch
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Writing on Public Books
In Praise of Search Tools
For centuries, book-makers, printers, furniture-makers and, now, programmers have worked to answer: how do you find what you need in a book?
Is Handwriting History?
Have you got a pen? My answer to such a question, following some clumsy digging in my backpack, is increasingly no. Sometimes, embarrassment giving way to defensiveness, I wonder why anyone bothers to ask. For years an “e-signature” has sufficed for my letters of recommendation; it’s months since I wrote a check. Presented with a […]
