The Common Reader
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What should be on a list of almost Great Books?
On Twitter, writes (I’m compiling two tweets)
Had an idea of making an “almost-Great Books” syllabus, which might include things like
The best expressions of worldviews which ended up losing
The second-best expressions...
Bull Run, butterflies, Jeep Cat, prom
On the stone bridge that crosses Bull Run, where the first shots of the first land battle of the Civil War were fired, a group of teenagers in sparkly gowns and fancy dresses whose sequins caught the sun were being photographed, presumably...
You have no idea how many legends have walked these halls and what’s worse, you don’t care.
The newspaper where Andy accepts a job at the end of The Devil Wears Prada is called ‘The New York Mirror’. The importance of this name is not hard to deduce. They report the world as it “really” is: they mirror the reality of unions and la...
He says the early petal-fall is past
For the last few weeks, when I have been able to arise and walk early enough, I have seen the rosy-fingered dawn, while the birdsong was filling the air, along with the thin translucent mists we get on cold mornings when your breath plumes...
The link between art and life
I wrote about Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor ahead of the anniversary of one of English Literature’s most important books, for Plough (it will be appearing here in a couple of weeks)
And yet, though I’ve pointed out many featur...
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