The Common Reader
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Why we still read novels
You can hardly imagine the British without their novels. How would the British be understood without the observations and provocations of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Virginia Woolf? What would we think of ourselves i...
The Gables of Elsinor
One of the architectural features I enjoy the most are Dutch gables. In London, you can see an especially good stepped gable on Lisle Street behind Leicester Square or enjoy the “Pont Street Dutch” style in Chelsea. (I especially love the s...
Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen
I just visited Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen. It is a really wonderful building. I have had relatively few architectural experiences that interesting. It is a style you might call “Gothic modernism”, with the features of the gothic in th...
Literature as Part of Life
It is said that literature is universal and it is said that literature is particular. Sometimes it is said that literature is universal through its particulars. All of this treats literature as commentary and representation, separate from h...
Smash, bang, and civilization
The sky was an endless blue as we drove out to the part of Virginia where you begin to see vultures circling on the warm summer air. As part of our immersion into American life, we were going to a demolition derby.
The only thing I have s...
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