NLJ Articles Volume 1 (1-246)

Below, you will find volume one of the collected articles of The New Leaf Journal. Volume 1 covers the first 246 New Leaf Journal articles, beginning with April 2020 and running through February 2021. Below, you will find the following:

• Links to our monthly archives for April 2020 through February 2021
• Links to my contemporaneous month-end review articles (starting with August 2020, see my early 2020 week-in-review posts for contemporaneous pre-August 2020 notes)
• Links to 27 “editor’s choice” articles drawn from May 2020 through February 2021 (see the monthly archives for all the articles)

I organize our article collections into blocks close to 250 articles. You can see volume 2, volume 3, and the in-progress volume 4 for later articles.

Monthly Archives

• April 2020 (2 articles)
• May 2020 (30 articles)
• June 2020 (21 articles)
• July 2020 (20 articles)
• August 2020 (16 articles)
  • August 20 Review
• September 2020 (31 articles)
  • September 20 Review
• October 2020 (25 articles)
  • October 20 Review
• November 2020 (21 articles)
  • November 20 Review
• December 2020 (25 articles)
  • December 20 Review
• January 2021 (29 articles)
  • January 21 Review
• February 2021 (26 articles)
  • February 2021 Review

Editor’s Choice Article Picks From April 2020-February 2021

• The Quarantine Sessions: “Love Henry”
  Victor V. Gurbo. May 6, 2020.
• Welcome to The Emu Café
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. May 16, 2020.
• The Last Stand of Constantine XI
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. May 30, 2020.
• The Trees Leaf in May
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. May 31, 2020.
• On When to Watch Credits or Leave a Bad Movie
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. June 6, 2020.
• Persona 4, Coffee, and Children
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. June 26, 2020.
• Capo vs Capo, a TikTok Debacle
  Victor V. Gurbo. July 21, 2020.
• Teaching the Art of the Video Game Snafu
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. July 25, 2020.
• A Brave Little Tree Grows in Manhattan
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. August 27, 2020.
• Bed in Summer, Bed in Winter
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. September 5, 2020.
• That Longest Year of School Finally Ends
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. September 26, 2020.
• Working to Save The Bitter End
  Victor V. Gurbo. September 27, 2020.
• Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. October 3, 2020.
• Winds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. October 15, 2020.
• The Heroic Fallen Trash Can Rescue in Gowanus
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. October 30, 2020.
• Justin & Justina 〜 The Pumpkin Taker
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. November 14, 2020.
• On Children and Internet Sharing
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. November 27, 2020.
• Justin & Justina 〜 A 5% Chance of Rain
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. December 3, 2020.
• Kaga no Chiyo Autumn Haiku on Unrequited Love
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. December 14, 2020.
• Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. December 19, 2020.
• Why Vintage Guitars Sound Better
  Victor V. Gurbo. January 4, 2021.
• The Two Decade Mario Party Finally Ends
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. January 8, 2021.
• Justin & Justina 〜 Existential Social Media Misery
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. January 25, 2021.
• Iroha Isshiki’s Hair is Brown, as Expected?
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. February 12, 2021.
• The Pine Tree Lovers of Takasago
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. February 13, 2021.
• RSS as a Facebook Alternative
  Nicholas A. Ferrell. February 21, 2021.
• “Mondrian” – Victor V. Gurbo on his Original Song
  Victor V. Gurbo. February 25, 2021.

The 27 articles linked above are just a small sample of the 246 articles we published from April 27, 2020 through the end of February 2021. I chose them as a representative sample of some, but not all, of our best writing from the period. I encourage you to browse our monthly archives and monthly review articles, follow links in articles, and use other tools on The New Leaf Journal to find articles of interest to you.