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Helping to clear out a room in my mother-in-law’s house, I come across an example of one of my favourite kinds of text: the page of writing with, on its…
 • Adam Smyth
Book Lives
I’ve been looking at two books that, in their handwritten additions, remember people who died in 2025.
 • Adam Smyth
Pictures of Readers
What do we see in Albert Bartholomé’s pastel and charcoal ‘The Artist’s Wife Reading’ (1883)?
 • Adam Smyth
Confessions (2025)
In September 2025, I invited friends and family members to record themselves reading a 20-second passage from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions…
 • Adam Smyth
The diaries of H____.
In 2016, I purchased from eBay for £45 9 volumes of diaries owned by a clinical psychologist practising privately in Berkeley, California.
 • Adam Smyth
Preserving unimportant papers
The problem of what to do with stuff.
 • Adam Smyth
Pronting errors
In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901), Sigmund Freud argues that slips of the tongue and the pen constitute moments when repressed thoughts…
 • Adam Smyth
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