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Just give Helen DeWitt some money
The failures of modern literary patronage
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Buddenbrooks, a masterwork of business and real life. A novel to love and live with.
notes on reading Mann from Austin
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Teaching poetry to LDS students raised on the KJV
a comment on Victoria Moul's bog
Apr 4
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How to memorise poetry
or, at least, how I memorise poetry
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Prayer (I), George Herbert
Poetry by Heart III
Apr 2
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Love Calls us to the Things of This World
Poetry by Heart II
Apr 2
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Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie: Shakespeare, Murder, and the Art of Simplicity
a very fun episode
Apr 1
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March 2026
Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
To the National Gallery, where I was shocked by El Greco’s Laocoön. The three figures on the right are like wraiths or spirits, perhaps shades visiting…
Mar 31
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Hating Dostoevsky
A review in the Sunday Times
Mar 28
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The Wealth of Nations is a classic of English Literature
a blog at Liberty Fund
Mar 27
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Larkin's trees
green grief
Mar 24
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Poems Beautiful and Useful
A new poetry pamphlet
Mar 20
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