The Common Reader
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Does it matter if you don't like the characters?
In the Financial Times, the novelist Jem Calder (whose new book I am yet to read), has written about the question of whether it matters if we like the characters in novels.
I have to ask: what’s so important about likeability? What’s the...
Manuel M. Novillo interviews me
A few weeks ago, messaged me about AI and literature. We ended up having a conversation over a short period and he sent me some direct interview questions. It is now published on his Substack Curva de aprendizaje. He will publish it soon i...
Homer Haunted, by Henry Power
Homer Haunted is a swift, lively, and informative book about the way English poets have translated Homer. It begins with George Chapman and ends with three living writers. Henry Power, an English professor at Exeter, is especially compellin...
My review of Nolan's Odyssey in GQ Australia
More significant than all of these changes, which might have worked well with another director, is the fact that this is not a great movie. Nor a good one. It is a sub-HBO, three-hour TV special. It feels more like a mini-series than a fi...
No Spanish reading crisis?
A study conducted by the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España earlier this year, however, paints a starkly different picture of readership in Spain. According to the study, the percentage of the overall Spanish population that read...
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