marginalia

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And because no year is complete without a bunch of Stephen Sondheim marginalia, I’ve added a few bonus tracks, including a snippet of a surprise, in his honor.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

At first it appears messy, improvised and oblique — the sculptural equivalent of marginalia.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

The interstitial collage elements play the role of footnotes, or more accurately, the marginalia of a slightly older, wiser reader revisiting a beloved book.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.

From The Verge • Mar. 4, 2022

But these marginalia contradicted the text, because the ivy was silently eating away at the mortar between the stones and would one day bring the walls down.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz