Sitemap - 2024 - The Common Reader
Judi Dench is honest about acting
Brandon Taylor: I want to bring back all of what a novel can do.
The books I enjoyed most this year, 2024.
How I learned to love literary criticism.
Death, Sociology, Crime, Knowledge, Jargon, Novels, Men
J.R.R. Tolkien the poet in search of lost time.
Poetry Book Club SUNDAY 19.00 UK TIME
Unstylish style in Vanity Fair.
Zena Hitz: reading the Great Books
Nelson in the Arctic. Polar bears, geese, and filled breeches.
Can the philistine supremacy be stopped?
Context Collapse is a very bad poem.
Learning to love. How the poet Dana Gioia discovered his vocation through music.
Marion Turner: Chaucer's world
Influences in Nelson's early career
An Inkling defends The Winter's Tale
Children deserve Shakespeare, not teachers who promote ignorance.
Winter's Tale, Tempest Book Club
Twenty-five facts about The Winter's Tale
Notes towards an applied literature
Politics, Oliver Sacks, Proust, Korea, Clutter, Levy, Psalms, Earnings, Status
Naomi Kanakia: How Great are the Great Books?
Horatio Nelson: The Darling Hero of England
The Real Thing? Stoppard at the Old Vic
The Moon, Sixpence, and Sally Rooney
How Shakespeare turned Plutarch into poetry
Catherine Lacey: internet geography
Troilus & Cressida, Antony& Cleopatra Night Book Club
“You can never be wise until you learn to love reading.”
What good is the New York Times?
The untold life of Helen Taylor
What are the best works of literature about business and capitalism?
Neurodiversity and normal people in Intermezzo.
'We know what we are.' Mating: a romance of rationalism and pragmatism.
The Millstone, by Margaret Drabble
The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
But tell me true, are you not mad indeed?
Nabeel Qureshi: literature requires the fuller engagement of your soul.
Vote for the GOAT British novelist
Trivialising ourselves to death.
Goethe, James, Evenings, Writing, Hitler, Elites, Serotonin, Piranesi, Breath, Elmet, Angel, Gilead
Hamlet & Twelfth Night Book Club
Who is the best British novelist?
Waiting your way to the top. Dwight Eisenhower's slow career.
Hollis Robbins: literature makes you a mind reader
Who's afraid of reading books?
Harold Bloom in Silicon Valley
Twenty seven facts about Hamlet
Why can't AI write a great novel?
London's best secret art gallery
Poetry Book Club TODAY 19.00 UK TIME
James Marriott. The value of being pretentious and the importance of the emotions to the intellect.
Elites need to be honest about highbrow culture
Can fiction succeed on Substack? How serialised novels can work with modern technology.
Here's a simple solution to the pessimism culture. Read a book.
A.N. Wilson. Walking in mysteries.
Will AI create a new creative renaissance?
No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley
Impossible Creatures, by Katherine Rundell
Why rage against a good night?
Give me leave to speak my mind
The Clerk's Tale and the expectation of astonishment
Ireland rejected James Joyce. Did he reject it back?
Baliol Holloway, forgotten Shakespearean actor
The unlikely similarity of J.S. Mill and Samuel Johnson.
How to Read a Poem: division, allegory, ambiguity, irony
Shakespeare and the Poets' War
Festivals, debuts, syntax, and Kafka
Deep, still, seeable. Seamus Heaney's letters.
When life is too much like a pathless wood
Ten of the best books about late bloomers and late blooming talent
Did Shakespeare chose not to think in Much Ado About Nothing?
Is the plain style the same as minimalism?
The plain style or the ornate?
What made the Inklings a significant literary group?
Nineteen facts about Much Ado About Nothing
Helen Vendler and the Recognition of Black Poetry.
Andrew Lang and the catawampus of Romance
Robert Frost's accidental late start
Patricia Highsmith's womb of her own
Shakespeare's breakthrough in Henry IV
Sex, madness, and death. Elizabeth Jenkins' overlooked masterpiece.
What about the people who never found their calling?
How Penelope Fitzgerald became a late blooming novelist.
Death, green, boxers, Bluestockings, devil, dragon, Bartleby, Deor
Two leadership lessons from Shakespeare's Henriad
The soul moved the pen, and broke it.
Knights and Hawkes: inside Shakespeare's dream
Raye. Revenge of a late bloomer.
Love's Labour's Lost book club
Twenty-five ideas about Love's Labour's Lost
Welcome to the age of the late bloomer
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
1791 Mozart's Last Year. H. C. Robbins Landon
Iris Murdoch, a novelist for now.
Iris Murdoch's philosophical fiction
Ely Cathedral and the beauty of progress.
The limits of mimesis. Seeing Others, by Michèle Lamont. Educated, by Tara Westover.
Thirty facts about Romeo and Juliet
Noël Coward's Talent to Amuse.
David Brooks and the moral purpose of self-help
Seventieth anniversaries. 1954 in English literature and beyond.