Letter of the Week
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Book sales are a curse. The Verso temptation resulted in four additions yesterday: Lucien Goldman’s The Hidden God; David Harvey’s The story of Capital; Moretti’s Modern Epic and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood 1900. I can admit it. The Benjamin book is a completist’s effort to quell literary hunger pangs, that empty stomach. I am less
About the Archivist
This is a curated selection of letters that left a mark on the world, on someone’s life, or just in the margins of time.
Each is transcribed with care and respect for the medium that first carried it: the typewritten page.