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Horatio Nelson: The Darling Hero of England
Happy Trafalgar Day. It's time to revive the Great Man Theory of History
Oct 20
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Henry Oliver
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The Real Thing? Stoppard at the Old Vic
AND: Second Act in the Wall Street Journal
Oct 17
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Henry Oliver
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The Moon, Sixpence, and Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Oct 16
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Henry Oliver
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How Shakespeare turned Plutarch into poetry
The barge speech from Antony and Cleopatra
Oct 15
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Henry Oliver
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Catherine Lacey: internet geography
websites, stories, selves, poets, television, Beethoven
Oct 13
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Henry Oliver
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Troilus & Cressida, Antony& Cleopatra Night Book Club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time
Oct 12
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Henry Oliver
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“You can never be wise until you learn to love reading.”
On my love of Samuel Johnson.
Oct 11
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Henry Oliver
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What good is the New York Times?
The philistine supremacy strikes again
Oct 10
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Henry Oliver
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Visionary madness, Godless novels!?, Modernism’s cultural drift, Is culture stuck?, Complicated Odysseus, Can't read: won't read, Knausgaard…
The irregular review of reviews vol. X
Oct 9
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Henry Oliver
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Visionary madness, Godless novels!?, Modernism’s cultural drift, Is culture stuck?, Complicated Odysseus, Can't read: won't read, Knausgaard and Scott and good bad writing, BBC bathos, Towards Zero
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Writing advice is a lie.
Just learn grammar and rhetoric instead
Oct 7
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Henry Oliver
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Writing advice is a lie.
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The untold life of Helen Taylor
How personality spreads ideas
Oct 6
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Henry Oliver
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What are the best works of literature about business and capitalism?
AND VOTE FOR THE GOAT
Oct 4
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Henry Oliver
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