Archive - The Common Reader

RIP Jane Gardam

just now •

The superiority of Studio Ghibli—over Disney and over AI slop.

The true integrity of the imagination.

19 hrs ago •

Clare Carlisle: George Eliot's Double Life.

George Eliot, Spinoza, psychoanalysis, writing biography.

Apr 27 •

1:21:18

Richard II book club

SUNDAY 7pm UK time

Apr 26 •

Proto, Lantana, Arcana, Mobius, Velasco, Uchida

New books, and some art and music

Apr 20 •

Is this AGI? (Not quite, I think...)

o3 as literary critic

Apr 17 •

Middlemarch is a novel about sympathising with everyone.

"Widening the skirts of light." Dorothea's self-reformation and her sympathy for Casaubon

Apr 16 •

Matt Yglesias: reading books makes me feel calmer.

Cate Blanchett, George Eliot, aphantasia, and the violence of television.

Apr 13 •

and

Matthew Yglesias

1:17:50

If men want to get published again, they need to write great novels.

Stop crying about the New Yorker. Self-publish if you have to.

Apr 10 •

Sense and Sensibility is a quest narrative

The video from this month's Austen book club

Apr 8 •

1:17:48

On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle

The time loop of our lives

Apr 6 •

Sense and Sensibility book club

SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time

Apr 5 •

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