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Gordon Wood Reading Proust
For Wood, to encounter Proust at all was the most important thing.
Jun 9
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What it is like to daydream about Proust
This is the second piece in a series of experiments about reading Proust.
Jun 6
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Should there be a Library of Britain?
Yes and it should be as broad as possible.
Jun 4
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Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding
Science, literature, philosophy, the humanities
Jun 3
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May 2026
What it is like to read Proust
an experiment
May 29
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Oscillating at the zoo
No-one reads the exhibits.
May 27
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Something understood. How to read poetry.
"We are as much as we see."
May 26
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The literary world needs to wake up!
The Commonwealth Prize
May 23
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To vex the world. Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor
On the three-hundredth anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift’s satire of his own society is remarkably relevant.
May 22
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What should be on a list of almost Great Books?
Give your suggestions in the comments
May 16
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Bull Run, butterflies, Jeep Cat, prom
On the stone bridge that crosses Bull Run, where the first shots of the first land battle of the Civil War were fired, a group of teenagers in sparkly…
May 15
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You have no idea how many legends have walked these halls and what’s worse, you don’t care.
The Devil Wears Prada is The Godfather for Millennials
May 13
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