Public Streets Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/series/public-streets/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Public Streets Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/series/public-streets/ 32 32 Between the Book Club and BookTok: Community Reading in Montreal https://www.publicbooks.org/between-the-book-club-and-booktok-community-reading-in-montreal/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:00:16 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55716 Page Break, a weekly hour of silent reading hosted by Montreal’s De Stiil bookstore, reveals broad generational differences in forms of literary community.

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]]> Pieces of the Past at the Doctors House: Glendale, California https://www.publicbooks.org/pieces-of-the-past-at-the-doctors-house-glendale-california/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55627 The house may appear as a mere physical artifact, but it contains larger stories of American migration and growth, reckonings with exclusion, and the advent of new technologies.

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]]> Women’s Land and Language: Huntington, Vermont https://www.publicbooks.org/womens-land-and-language-huntington-vermont/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:00:45 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55366 In the physical space of HOWL, a feminist and separatist living community, discussion of feminist ideas takes on urgency when confronted with the immediate practicalities of daily living.

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]]> Cracks in the Louvre Abu Dhabi https://www.publicbooks.org/cracks-in-the-louvre-abu-dhabi/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51457 The museum has made its splash, but if it wants to be more than a work of starchitecture, it requires deeper collections and bolder curatorial vision.

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]]> Jewish Havens: Amsterdam, The Netherlands https://www.publicbooks.org/jewish-havens-amsterdam-the-netherlands/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50873 For centuries, the city’s Sephardim adhered to Jewish law within the community, but also had secular lives in the relatively lax Dutch state.

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]]> Elvis’s Missing Belt: Tel Aviv, Israel https://www.publicbooks.org/elvis-missing-belt-tel-aviv-israel/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48912 “As a teenager, I also worked at HaMeshulash for several months. It’s quite possible that I was the worst waiter in the history of the café.”

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]]> A Statue Gives Romans a Voice: 2021, Rome, Italy https://www.publicbooks.org/pasquino-statue-rome-italy-covid/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48168 The people of Rome have been leaving notes on the Pasquino statue for over 500 years. And this practice continued in the pandemic, fortunately.

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]]> Apocalypse and Anticlimax: The Petrified Forest, Calistoga, CA https://www.publicbooks.org/petrified-forest-calistoga-california-climate-apocalypse/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47950 Unlike us today, the Victorians who discovered this stone forest were less afraid of the future than they were of forgetting the past.

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]]> What Folklore Erases: Under Columbus, Georgia https://www.publicbooks.org/what-folklore-erases-under-columbus-georgia/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44415 The current owner of the Lion House is happy to let rumors about his property’s basement passageway simmer.

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]]> Literary and Manual Labors: Pittsfield, Massachusetts https://www.publicbooks.org/literary-and-manual-labors-pittsfield-massachusetts/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42643 “I have been building some shanties of houses …,” wrote Melville to Hawthorne, “and likewise some shanties of chapters and essays.”[none-for-homepage]

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