Footnotes -- or endnotes, or just notes; whatever you want to call them -- are a problem. They're a problem for writers and a problem for readers and a problem for typesetters and a problem for page ...
I agree and disagree with Rodger Beehler (“In Editing a Good Novel, the Best Footnote Is 0,” The Review, March 9). I agree that the use of endnotes, footnotes, subquotes, and whatnots in novels that ...