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The Common Reader

Henry Oliver, Joy Buchanan, Anna McCullough

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Latest Issues

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George Steiner breaking my heart with his description of the way people used to memorise poems, Bible passages, classic works.

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The Liberal Spirit of Literary Criticism

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Henry Oliver

    Writer. Critic. Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. \Literature, history, liberalism, philosophy.

  • Joy Buchanan

    economist, mom, idealist

  • Anna McCullough

    PhD in Victorian literature, interested in nineteenth-century culture and scientific theory

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