Archive - The Common Reader

The Gables of Elsinor

And the beauties and ugly offenses of Copenhagen

14 hrs ago • Henry Oliver

Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen

Aesthetics should make the old new and the new old

Aug 6 • Henry Oliver

Literature as Part of Life

universals and particulars

Aug 5 • Henry Oliver

Smash, bang, and civilization

at the demolition derby

Aug 3 • Henry Oliver

July 2026

Don't extend UK copyright. It will tax the arts and reduce creativity.

There are other ways to raise money for charity.

Jul 30 • Henry Oliver

The Beauty Revival?

Jul 29 • Henry Oliver

The ordinary sublime of the American diner

Pecan pie, Pecan pie, Pecan pie

Jul 27 • Henry Oliver

Elizabeth Bowen: as good as Henry James

Tessa Hadley in the Times

Jul 25 • Henry Oliver

Does it matter if you don't like the characters?

I cannot reconcile my heart to this unlikeable approach to literature

Jul 23 • Henry Oliver

Manuel M. Novillo interviews me

Bob Dylan, the reading crisis, children, happiness, and more

Jul 23 • Henry Oliver

Homer Haunted, by Henry Power

Splendid literary criticism, dull politics

Jul 21 • Henry Oliver

My review of Nolan's Odyssey in GQ Australia

Jul 17 • Henry Oliver

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