When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...

Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks lead us to the great writer’s mind, then ask us to remain outside. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

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To read Albert Camus’s Notebooks – comprehensive, newly translated and expertly annotated by Ryan Bloom – is to enter ...