Sitemap - 2025 - The Common Reader
What to do about the decline of the humanities.
Adam Smith's impartial spectator
Thirty-one facts about Richard II
The superiority of Studio Ghibli—over Disney and over AI slop.
Clare Carlisle: George Eliot's Double Life.
Proto, Lantana, Arcana, Mobius, Velasco, Uchida
Is this AGI? (Not quite, I think...)
Middlemarch is a novel about sympathising with everyone.
Matt Yglesias: reading books makes me feel calmer.
If men want to get published again, they need to write great novels.
Sense and Sensibility is a quest narrative
On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle
Sense and Sensibility book club
Does Jane Austen undermine her own endings? No. No she does not.
Jane Austen's alternative endings.
Twenty-one facts (and opinions) about A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Katherine Dee. Finding life where others don't.
Midsummer Night's Dream book club
Evelyn Waugh's Decadent Redemption
Shakespeare's first tipping point
Rachel Herrington is reading the St. Johns curriculum. You can join her.
How to get started reading English literature.
Books for ambitious 14-17 year old students?
Agnes Callard: what is the value of fiction?
What does pride mean in Pride and Prejudice?
How to read the opening of a novel
Will AI have a taste all of its own?
Twenty-five facts about The Comedy of Errors
Mr. Bennet and the mischief of neglect
Nelson, patronage, and meritocracy
AI and the future of literature.
Pride and Poverty? Lizzy Bennet's financial prospects.
Natasha Joukovsky: literature, capitalism, and Jane Austen.
Does the flame of genius burn past 30?
Literary culture can't just dismiss AI.
Why is Harry Potter quite so influential?
A place where knowledge is ours for the taking.
Twenty-nine facts about Richard III
Is Atlas Shrugged the new vibe?
How good is AI at literary criticism?
Is the Baroness in The Sound of Music a Nazi?
Austen saved me from social media