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  1. 2 min read

    다시 읽기에 대하여

    처음 읽을 때는 무슨 일이 일어나는지 알고 싶어 읽는다. 그다음부터는 그때의 내가 누구였는지 알고 싶어 읽는다.

  2. 3 min read

    On Rereading

    The first time through a book you read to find out what happens. Every time after that, you read to find out who you were.

  3. 3 min read

    Footnotes Are a Form of Honesty

    The footnote lets a writer admit doubt, digress, and cite a source without breaking the sentence that needed to stay clean.

  4. 1 min read

    나는 왜 아직도 만년필로 쓰는가

    가장 느리고 잘 새고 가장 비실용적이지만 여전히 쓰이는 필기구를 위한 변론, 그리고 이 도구가 제 몫을 해내는 이유.

  5. 7 min read

    A Typography Sampler

    One essay, deliberately overloaded: headings, quotes, footnotes, lists, a table, and some code, in service of a single argument.

  6. 3 min read

    A Short History of the Serif

    Why letters grew little feet, and what four centuries of stonecutters, scribes, and engineers did with them.

  7. 3 min read

    On the Pleasure of Slow Reading

    A case for reading fewer books more slowly, on the theory that speed was never the point of a sentence.