Archive - The Common Reader

Will AI create a new creative renaissance?

Maybe, but lots of other factors matter too

Jul 25 •

No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley

The philistine supremacy is real.

Jul 23 •

Shakespeare club update

We return in September (sort of August too)

Jul 21 •

Why I read children's books

The simple faith of the imagination

Jul 19 •

Be serious, Mother reader, Critic friend, AI, Franchise, Mozart, Moby Dick, War and Peace, Internet novels

The Irregular Review of Reviews VII.

Jul 16 •

Impossible Creatures, by Katherine Rundell

Good but not that good

Jul 14 •

The biographer's morality

Keeping secrets about Alice Munro

Jul 11 •

Why rage against a good night?

Reading Dylan Thomas

Jul 9 •

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

A book to read out loud

Jul 7 •

The modern discourse novel

Novelists who allow the internet to set limits on how they think

Jul 2 •

June 2024

Lolita is not a moral test

No-one knows what an unreliable narrator even is

Jun 30 •

Give me leave to speak my mind

Two sorts of fool

Jun 27 •

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