The Common Reader
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Marilyn, Transcendence, Durham, Novels, Dulles, Amis, Proust, Lost Lambs
Marilyn and Her Books, Gail Crowther
I had higher expectations of this book than it was able to meet.
Transcendence for Beginners, Clare Carlisle
The new Claire Carlisle book is just excellent. It will get less attention than i...
Gordon Wood Reading Proust
For Wood, to encounter Proust at all was the most important thing. He told us again what he had said to Will: he really wanted to read this novel before he died. And, standing next to him, his wife Louise confirmed. In fact, it had become...
What it is like to daydream about Proust
This is the second piece in a series of experiments about reading Proust. You can read the first installment here.
Every day, I take my copy of Proust to the pool. It is the perfect place for such immersive reading. We were the firs...
Should there be a Library of Britain?
At the end of his forthcoming history of the British novel, which I will review properly closer to its release in September, Philip Hensher proposes that Britain needs something similar to the Library of America series or the Bibliothèque d...
Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding
What a lot of fun I had talking to about Gulliver’s Travels. As well as discussing Swift, slavery, genocide, rationality, Christianity, and science, Zena told me that good philosophy is like a box of cake mix and that a liberal education r...
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