2026

  1. No. 14Aug 2026

    On reading slower than you write

    Margin notes, not paragraphs, are the honest unit of a newsletter.

  2. No. 13Jul 2026

    The reader who annotates back

    Some readers write back in the margins of their own copies. This issue is for them.

  3. No. 12Jun 2026

    A short defense of the semicolon

    It's not indecisive. It's patient.

  4. No. 11May 2026

    What I underline twice

    A running list of sentences I've read more than once on purpose.

  5. No. 10Apr 2026

    Reading with a pencil in hand

    The case for marking up a book you plan to give away.

2025

  1. No. 9Dec 2025

    The year in margins

    Twelve months of notes, arranged in the order they actually occurred to me.

  2. No. 8Oct 2025

    On finishing a book you didn't like

    Sometimes the point is to know how it ends, not to enjoy getting there.

  3. No. 7Aug 2025

    A newsletter is not a text message

    On the difference between writing to be read now and writing to be read later.

  4. No. 6Jun 2025

    A postscript, six months late

    An overdue correction to something I got wrong in issue No. 1.

  5. No. 5Apr 2025

    The margin is not a compliment section

    Most marginalia is an argument, not applause.

That's everything, for now. I haven't written the next one yet.